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    Thread: Consorting with Enemies
Post: RE: Consorting with Enemies

https://thefirstage.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ny-fort-av.png Nythadri (https://thefirstage.org/wiki/nythadri-vanditera/) Nythadri was quiet while she listened; no wry smiles, no softening of ...
Natalie Grey Past Lives 37 36,569 01-10-2026, 09:20 PM
    Thread: Medsi
Post: RE: Medsi

Apologies were things to brace for. They nearly always preceded loss. Natalie felt the sharpness of it, but the twist was entirely of her own making. She didn’t even know what he thought he was apolog...
Natalie Grey Hospitals & Research Centers 20 9,190 12-21-2025, 06:41 PM
    Thread: Medsi
Post: RE: Medsi

She watched him carefully, not from doubt, but to find a foothold. Natalie was fully prepared to bear the weight alone, but she refused to walk the path she’d watched Jay choose before her: singular, ...
Natalie Grey Hospitals & Research Centers 20 9,190 12-11-2025, 08:16 PM
    Thread: Medsi
Post: RE: Medsi

“I brought coffee, which is far superior to sympathy. Though I suppose I could probably be persuaded. Being as I do, in fact, quite like your hands.” She hadn’t let go of his jacket. Her gaze up at hi...
Natalie Grey Hospitals & Research Centers 20 9,190 11-20-2025, 06:04 PM
    Thread: Your theme song
Post: RE: Your theme song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH6x8MC9sA8&list=RDMMNH6x8MC9sA8&start_radio=1
Natalie Grey General Discussion 284 361,715 10-28-2025, 03:49 PM
    Thread: Medsi
Post: RE: Medsi

By his expression she was surprised Carter even managed to get that close. The name came a little unbidden, like he hadn’t quite intended to admit to the struggle to place her. There was a certain fau...
Natalie Grey Hospitals & Research Centers 20 9,190 10-20-2025, 09:24 PM
    Thread: Medsi
Post: RE: Medsi

[[Continued from The Price of Questions (https://thefirstage.org/forums/thread-1883.html)]] It was early hours by the time she admitted defeat. The shattered glass was swept clean, the pieces of br...
Natalie Grey Hospitals & Research Centers 20 9,190 10-16-2025, 12:17 PM
    Thread: Lunch Date (Estella Restaurant)
Post: RE: Lunch Date (Estella Restaurant)

The afternoon was a respite she’d known she needed, but not truly how much. Moscow had proved a lonely city, in no small part due to her own guard and inability to let things lie. Sooner or later she ...
Natalie Grey Nightlife & Entertainment 17 7,957 10-16-2025, 10:33 AM
    Thread: The Price of Questions
Post: The Price of Questions

[[continued from Lunch Date [Estella Restaurant] (https://thefirstage.org/forums/thread-1831.html)]] Traffic in the city was always jammed, and she had plenty of time to think in the back of the ca...
Natalie Grey Central City Flats & Apartments 0 495 10-16-2025, 10:27 AM
    Thread: Lunch Date (Estella Restaurant)
Post: RE: Lunch Date (Estella Restaurant)

Moscow had been cold for a while, and she barely paid attention to the passing seasons. Months since the trip to America, then. Longer since St James. She had no idea what Jay usually did to celebrate...
Natalie Grey Nightlife & Entertainment 17 7,957 09-27-2025, 05:31 PM
    Thread: Lunch Date (Estella Restaurant)
Post: RE: Lunch Date (Estella Restaurant)

It was surprisingly pleasant to talk about Belizna with someone she was not trying to manipulate to her cause. The physical renovations took up great swathes of her time, the planning, networking, and...
Natalie Grey Nightlife & Entertainment 17 7,957 09-11-2025, 12:22 PM
    Thread: Consorting with Enemies
Post: RE: Consorting with Enemies

https://thefirstage.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Nythadri-AS-1.png Nythadri In three strides Jai had scooped the hands from her lap and held them firm, presumably disturbed by whatever he must have...
Natalie Grey Past Lives 37 36,569 08-22-2025, 08:01 PM
    Thread: Lunch Date (Estella Restaurant)
Post: RE: Lunch Date (Estella Restaurant)

“Open offer, whenever she might need it. Kind of selfish on my part, really. It’ll take years to renovate the whole estate. I’d be happy for the help.” Natalie was glad to let the quiet edge to her...
Natalie Grey Nightlife & Entertainment 17 7,957 08-21-2025, 06:08 PM
    Thread: Lunch Date (Estella Restaurant)
Post: RE: Lunch Date (Estella Restaurant)

Natalie gave Emily the space to find the words in her own time, listening without interruption. She’d never met either of Emily’s sisters, though Emily mentioned them sometimes – with, admittedly, mor...
Natalie Grey Nightlife & Entertainment 17 7,957 08-19-2025, 07:40 PM
    Thread: Lunch Date (Estella Restaurant)
Post: RE: Lunch Date (Estella Restaurant)

Natalie wasn’t a saccharine person, and she rarely said anything she didn’t mean – and certainly not with those she was closest to. Her assurance wasn't an empty comfort, for all it was also the expec...
Natalie Grey Nightlife & Entertainment 17 7,957 07-23-2025, 12:32 PM
    Thread: Lunch Date (Estella Restaurant)
Post: RE: Lunch Date (Estella Restaurant)

She half smiled and tipped her shoulder to brush aside the trip to London. The complexities of family were never pleasant topics of conversation for Natalie, and while she would talk if pushed, she wa...
Natalie Grey Nightlife & Entertainment 17 7,957 06-06-2025, 06:24 PM
    Thread: Lunch Date (Estella Restaurant)
Post: RE: Lunch Date (Estella Restaurant)

Her lips twitched a small smile for the warmth of the greeting. Emily always proved to be effortless company, a rarity Natalie valued because it was so remarkably genuine. Real trust was always either...
Natalie Grey Nightlife & Entertainment 17 7,957 06-03-2025, 07:56 PM
    Thread: Lunch Date (Estella Restaurant)
Post: RE: Lunch Date (Estella Restaurant)

It wasn’t often Natalie made room for anything purely social. Pestovo wasn’t somewhere she was familiar with, mostly because of the elitist price tag (and the generally insufferable company of others ...
Natalie Grey Nightlife & Entertainment 17 7,957 04-25-2025, 12:17 PM
    Thread: I said I'm fine
Post: RE: I said I'm fine

If Jay noticed the sterility of the apartment, the fact Natalie had apparently been living out of a suitcase, or the way she didn’t seem to know where anything actually was, he gave no sign. She’d nev...
Natalie Grey Central City Flats & Apartments 1 2,547 04-19-2025, 07:00 PM
    Thread: Wedding Bells Part 2: The Reception
Post: RE: Wedding Bells Part 2: The Reception

All storms ended, and eventually this one did too. The cold crept in alongside the silence, but of the two, winter’s knives against her skin were a kinder torture. She leaned against his arm nonethele...
Natalie Grey Greater Moscow 52 36,909 02-06-2025, 09:19 PM