Generation NeXt

Magdalen looks at the new, unfamiliar building unblinkingly. With her parents, she's gotten used to things not being right or consistent, but this is still, somewhere down in her stomach, unsettling.

Finally, she calls, "Well? What is it?" with haughty confidence almost wholly assumed. "What do you want?"

Magdalen is the daughter of Linden Kohlrabi and Queen Morgause of Orkney.

John stares up at the multistory building in front of him. This is new. This is very new.

He advances up the front steps, opens the door, and goes inside. In the huge ante-room, he finds a marble desk, the kind that always seem like they're going to be bigger than you are. Across it is spread a book full of numbers with little keys taped next to them.

His writing isn't great, but he can at least sign his name, and on a whim he does, right next to some number that looks big and round. Then he snatches up the key and runs off into the hall, in case he wasn't supposed to do that, and when he's run enough that he's pretty sure nobody saw him, he starts to explore.

This place is big.

John Roland Thatcher is the son of Jocelyn and William Thatcher from A Knight's Tale