Today's news:
For most countries in the northern hemisphere, the middle of August is still the middle of summer. Here it's starting to feel like autumn ... the nights can get quite cold already (just above freezing). Now autumn is my favourite season, but here it's way too short -- we often get the first snow at the beginning of October already :(
Spiky's Link of the Week:
First Person Tetris. (If you're susceptible to motion sickness or similar, don't go there.)
Author's notes:
I wanted to make it clearer, but rewrote the dialogue to be shorter (walls of text are bad -- and I still have them way too often): the basket really is from Ashcliff (or so it says, on a card in there).