Settling into the compound, Lyla meets her roomate, Maud . It doesn't start very well, but it gets a bit better by the end. Sort of.

Backdated to July 28 : Phedre wakes in the Temple of Elua to find Hyacinthe has disappeared from the island. Unable to cope, she goes to the compound to find some busy work, and there is met and, in some cases, comforted by friends and acquaintances .

Backdated to July 28 : Phedre wakes in the Temple of Elua to find Hyacinthe has disappeared from the island. Unable to cope, she goes to the compound to find some busy work, and there is met and, in some cases, comforted by friends and acquaintances .

It was always the way, William reflected. Weeks and weeks with nothing, and then all of a sudden you had Bulletless Body Baffles Police at the same time as Body Switching is Back following closely... It was a start. * William being William, it actually wasn't. [Joint post, going your pup-Maud-William, unless you just want the one of them, which can probably be arranged, just let me know.]

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. It wasn't a dream. It wasn't some weird hallucination brought on by bad boar meat in a sandwich, and he really wasn't dreaming. He'd woken up NAKED in bed with some guy he'd...was a little familiar didn't even register. Because he was NAKED . And under a sheet. Dear god. " CASEY!! WE HAVE A CODE-- I DON'T KNOW WHAT CODE IT IS, BUT SOMETHING IS SERIOUSLY WRONG HERE!

When I was younger, by several years—before I had but the outline of what my life was to be; when I had held the book of it, observed the bindings and smelled the dry parchment, but not yet seen what words...literally and figuratively. She's been crying but has stopped, is nonetheless still quite agitated, and although she doesn't know it she's been truthed so she'll tell folks exactly what the deal is.]

On Valentine's Day , Nefarious Bacon results in Danny Blue being stuck to his worst nightmare: a frigid Victorian lesbian. While Maud Lilly gets stuck to, well, Danny Blue . Neither are particularly happy with the situation.

New Years Eve and Donald and Maud meet, while talking to Charlie , who seems completely unaware that either of the other two might like a bit more than just as a friend.

Once, when I was younger—not terribly so, but when one has only a limited number of years to their name, each takes on a greater significance—I was locked away in an icehouse, as punishment. I forget,...that it is almost touching the surface of the water. The warmth rises and pushes upon the palm of my hand, even as I still feel the cold press upon the back. I remain there, in quiet contemplation

Of all the irrdeemably bizarre phenomenon that take place upon this island, I have come to believe that this fog and its accompanying comas are my favourite—which is to say simply that they are the best...some poisonous work. So far, none of what it has upon its shelves is particularly offensive. Neither is anything particularly interesting. I worry, slightly, that these two factors are not coincidence