It's COOOOOOLLLLLDDDD!!!

And d'you know what's WORSE than it being REALLY REALLY bloody cold?

Working in a building when the central heating has decided to die.

And d'you know what's even WORSE?

Working in an old pre-Victorian building without heat - while it has lots of extremely pretty original features, cavity wall insulation is, alas, not one of them - high ceilings and lots of COLD are. I think someone died of hypothermia in the vault.

6 people have approached boss with the line "Mr. Scrooge, could you spare us a shovel of charcoal for the fire?" We may see grumpiness soon.

Lighting up a cigarette also caused us to gather around muttering "precious warmth, sweet fire." Sadly, we were abandonned before we could get down to some annoying fire worship.

Mad Secretary (cos we all need one) was glared at for dragging herself across the floor crying "my legs, I can't feel my legs."

It occurs to me I work in a very silly place :)

Mad Secretary excells herself.

It's still bloody cold.

And to make it worse the thing from the black lagoon came to an appointment (not with me thankfully) again. The Thing is a rather large lady who sweats when standing still in a walk in freezer. She changes her clothes about once a month, showers once a year and is completely unacquainted with any kind of perfume, deoderant or anti-perspirent. At least, that's what it smells like.

While we flinch away and act polite, mad secretary doth quoth:

"God, did someone kill a Yak in here?"

I feel sorry for the person who has the appointment and had to keep a straight face.

The Thing is now known as the Yak. Her files have all been suitably labelled.

Sparkindarkness 76 - the Long Shadows of Fear and Loss

I'm back. I still have the prequel flashes but I wanted to move on with the present before adding past flashbacks. I'm also having a huge headache with clothing. I kind of know what the clothes worn in the court of old King James were called, but I'm not sure and it's a bitch finding out. I know what they looked like, but the proper names are annoying.

But that's not nearly as irritating as the mass of Camaalis declaring that, actually, they preferred Tudor fashions and were known as quite eccentric for their fashion sense.

Gah, I don't know why they're being so awkward. Given the choice, most of them wore robes anyway because doublets, hose, ruffs and frills were severely impractical in so many magical applications.


Anyways, the future casts long shadows, and Rick and Darren fear what comes.


( Sparkindarkness 76 - the Long Shadows of Fear and Loss )