Chapter Twenty
WORLD END: T-minus 155 days, 4 hours, and 30 minutes
7 Rideau Gate, Ottawa, Ontario
The sitting room in the North Wing was a place of impossible comfort: plush velvet chairs, a carved stone fireplace, and tall windows that filtered the pale morning light onto an antique Persian rug. It was a space designed to welcome powerful guests, but currently, it was the site of an emotional collision.
Peter sat forward on the sofa; his hands clasped so tightly his k
To explain the @Paladin Brian/Giraffe Daddy joke. Paladin pointed out something in the text of one of the chapters a few chapters back, and as a reward I gave him a cameo... which somehow has spiraled into our boy Brian! There's always one character that just jumps up and down and goes Oooooo me me me!
Ghost Protocol : The Movie!
Produced by Mr. Goodman
Executive Producer : Madam Chao
Executive Giraffe Boy : @Paladin Brian
somewhere down the bottom of the credits, : Written by some guy named Blake Wolo-whtzit it doesn't matter.
It's when he finds out she ruthlessly bought out his publishing house and immediately commissions Ten more books of a series he hates writing and she adores.
I am just picturing Merrickville in a 1940's style Film Noir hard boiled detective film.
Mary-Joe Hickey as the femme fatale (Clovis's grandmother)
Jonathan Harding Senior as the Hard Boiled detective (West's Grandfather)
Tammy Highbury as the loyal secretary (Lisa's Granny)
And of course the infamous Gangster Larry Highmore (Andrew's Grandfather) With his side kick henchman Harold Jensen toting a tommy gun.
Twenty-one
The interior of Jason’s old Subaru Forrester smelled faintly of stale coffee and the quiet, persistent scent of lavender, a recent, domestic import from Blake’s side of the closet. Outside, the November rain was a relentless curtain against the windshield, blurring the lights of Merrickville’s Main Street into streaks of light.
Inside the car, the tension was a physical third occupant. Blake Wolochowski sat hunched in the passenger seat, his dark coat pulled tight, looki