Let it make a happy glow for all the world to see

And so we return to that house which was picturesque enough at the time. As Claire enters her father is at a table stacked deep in compact discs and vanishing under ripping tape.

( This is another Vic-and-Sade piece, which is hard to write but more satisfying at least once I work up the courage to actually show it. Also, while the circumstances do lead me to using the phrase 'laser squirrel' I do not believe I am pandering to my friends but rather making a logical phrase.  )

Trivia: The Third Estate voted 490-90 on 17 June 1789 to proclaim itself the French National Assembly; two days later the clerical order voted 149-137 to merge with the Assembly. Source: The Age Of Napoleon, Will and Ariel Durant.

Currently Reading: Jet Age: The Comet, The 707, And The Race To Shrink The World, Sam Howe Verhovek.