Edge of Dark

John had been working with Lyla and the J.C.’s then Mrs. Honeywell jumped on the band wagon and things really took off and heated up. He had been trying to plan big but, in the aftermath he realized he just didn’t know what big was. It struck him when he walked down a closed off main ...

Timeline: April 2nd, 2008 The day had been full of fun, food, drink, and friends. Ramiel had known peace until she walked into the bar. Casablanca seemed real for the briefest of moments. As he looked at Julia before him wondering how she ended up in that bar, of all the places in the world why ...

Timeline: April 1st, 2008 (April Fool’s Day) Lyla was exhausted. She was a Uratha and that meant that she could recover from just any kind of injury or muscle strain with ease. But her mother was also Uratha and knew she could push Lyla to work far harder than most people. As a consequence, Lyla had ...

Timeline: Mid-March, 2008 Ramiel had been searching in the woods for a while before he finally stumbled across Selene. He had a notebook in his hand and a pen. “Hey Selene!” he called out as he made his way down the hill. She pulled up short and waited for him. “Hi, Ramiel. You’re quite a ways from ...

Timeline: March 15, 2008, late afternoon/early evening Rey sat by the newly started fire and half-heartedly warmed her hands. She was cold, sore, nervous, miserable and lonely. She’d almost broken the promise she’d made herself, not to seek Grey out. Ever since the night she’d gone into Grey’s dreams, she’d berated herself for her stupidity. She shouldn’t ...

Timeline: Friday of February 29, 2008 It was a a special day for the Blood & Brew. As well as being a leap year, the extra day in February fell upon a Friday, making it the regulars a bit more celebratory than usual. The mood of the evening was also surprisingly, unidentifiably, sinister. Lyla was personally working ...

Lyla covered herself in a filmy robe and padded quickly out of her room, with barely a backward glance at her disheveled bed. She dashed down the hall and around the corner on quick, light feet. She saw Ramiel there, with nothing but a pair of pants hastily put on to cover himself. She picked ...

Timeline: March 16th, 2008 To say Rey felt miserable was an understatement. She’d spent the entire night crying, unable to sleep. She just wanted to crawl into a hole somewhere. But she had to work. She had to keep going. Amazing what simple home remedies and Visine could to to make her look presentable. It was early ...

Timeline: March 17th, 2008 Lyla found Ramiel asleep on the front porch when she crept back to the house in the early hours of the morning. He had only recently passed out as the clove was still burning in the ash tray. He had been acting fatigued for the past couple days, and a bit unusual. She ...

Time line: March 18th, 2008 Lyla had been having a rough week. Her thoughts were torn over the loss of her child and the longing to hold the life created between her and Ramiel. Words would never be able to capture the feeling of a life growing inside her. The magic of the life created between ...