the colony

Characters: Analise and Andrew Kirke, Gregory Blair, Abigail Theien, Michael and Meghan Callahan, and the Traders.
Location: The parlor / Farmhouse
Summary: The sudden cold snap send the traders indoors for most of the day and that evening, the musicians of the "New Vegas Settlement" decide to have a little fun.
Rating: PG-13 for some adult-ish humor.

( “Come on, sugar. They’re playing our song!” )

Characters: Mike and Meg Callahan
Location: The Kitchen
Summery: After checking out the traders and meeting Orin, Meg comes back to the house to start meal-duty. Mike isn't comfortable.
Rating: PG-13

( He didn’t like the idea -- as irrational as it was -- of (Meg) facing a bunch of unknowns with no help but an old dog. )

Characters: Mike and Meg
Location: The Garage
Summery: Meg takes Mike out a little lunch while he's working. The two fall into the subject of the group tensions surrounding Leo
Rating: PG

( S'just what I heard... )

Characters: Mike and Meg
Location: The house
Summary: Mike finds out that Quinn has left the farm, and tells Meg.
Rating: PG-13 for swears

( ...whaddya mean, he left? )

Characters: Meghan and Mike Callahan
Location: farmhouse living room
Summary: lacking Christmas gifts, Mike tries his hand at arts and crafts
Rating: G

( Desperation and...home-made yarn decorations )

Characters: Mike and Meg
Location: Their bedroom
Summery: Another conversation narrowly avoided
Rating: PG-13

( Will you still love me when I'm bald? / Mmmmmnope. )

Characters: Meghan and Michael Callahan
Location: the woods near the farmhouse
Summary: picking out a tree and avoiding that talk Meg’s been wanting to have
Rating: PG for language

( It wasn’t perfectly symmetrical like the cut trees they’d get back in the parking-lots of Chicago... )

Characters: Mike and Meg
Location: Their room in the Farmhouse (formally Alice’s room)
Summary: Husband and Wife, alone for the first time in a year
Rating: R for sexual imagery

( 'Somethin' wrong?' / 'Not a damn thing...' )