After The Fall

The place wasn't one hundred percent livable yet, but it was well past ninety-five. Those of them who were already living in town anyway had actually gotten the all clear to start moving in this weekend since the final inspections had been passed and a good bit of the furniture had started to show up. Sam had been shoving things around to Bobby and Lizzie's specifications most of the morning but his husband seemed mostly happy with the state of things for the moment, not to mention pretty worn out. Sam had left him to break in the room's specialized AC by turning it down to almost arctic temperatures and maybe try out the napping potential of the currently sheet-less - and thankfully huge - bed, and headed out to see where he could make himself useful. There was still some finish work to be done in a few rooms, and some folks might need help moving their furniture around, and he was humming quietly under his breath, pleased as could be that they'd finally be moving in for good tomorrow, as he hit the second floor landing.

Kurt couldn't wait to get back to New York. He missed pizza and movies and Chinese and dancing in clubs and being able to use his inducer, but there were some things he was going to miss about Genosha. Like the monkeys! He'd followed a chittering,  energetic troupe through the trees for over an hour, laughing at their antics and evading the occasional irate charge. Now he was perched on top of a low wall at the far end of the garden watching as a different family group interacted in the branches of a massive tree. There was everything from wrestling and what was unmistakably a game of tag to grooming and what looked for all the world like a little circle of old gossips shooting the breeze. He would definitely miss the monkeys. Probably the brightly colored birds too, but definitely the monkeys.

Threnody hadn't really left the barn. The faint lingering energy in the building was fascinating to her. It was just strong enough for her to feel, but not strong enough for her to do anything with. All she knew was that something bad had happened there.