Le Nouvel An – featuring Kynan and Aneirin from All that Glitters

I don’t fear monsters in the dark. Not anymore. I am the monster that lurks in the shadows, now, and what I fear is what might happen if I do not have Nye to watch over me, and keep the hunger from taking control.

A Saint Nicholas Surprise – featuring Arjen and Maikel from Blood and Roses

Heliographs, he’d called them. Not paintings but true images, imprinted by the sun. One of the display stands held a picture that I couldn’t help but reach out and take into my hands. It was an image of Amsterdam’s canals, much like the one we were standing beside. In the image, they were sun-drenched and bright.

Maikel hadn’t seen his city in the daylight in over a hundred years. A thrill ran through me at the thought of giving him this, a glimpse of what he’d only been able to know vicariously for so long.