Nargiles, fey allergies & a few other things

( I wonder if I’m going to need a smoking tag? )

In other news:
Pi, Phi and the Great Pyramid - Al-Ahram (Issue no. 890)
The face of Julius Caesar? Come off it! - A don’s life

And, courtesy of herzog_ludwig: E. S. Posthumus, whose album Unearthed is particularly lovely.

Three Trinity Blood fics & a log

Mother (G. 3341 words.)
Part two of Pathway charting the time between Süleyman’s border command and his arrival in Byzantium.

Circus (PG. 2441 words.)
Süleyman takes a teenaged Radu to the Milanese opera with some rather curious results. Though not before deciding that his activities in Venice would make it a far too scandalous location to visit instead.
I ought to warn for my slinging around Italian phrases here too really.

Change (PG. 2101 words.)
Something has changed between him and his tovarăş and Ion cannot understand why.
Involving non-sexual naked Methuselahness.
With an additional challenge to alucards_bane to figure out the inspiration from real life.

And lastly a Pegasus log involving two NPCs one of whom is a tarot reader who may in fact be faux-Egyptian and the other who may or may not be Turkish.