Comments | songhay: Where No Shadows Fall, Chapter 2: I Pray the Lord My Soul to Keep

songhay

Where No Shadows Fall, Chapter 2: I Pray the Lord My Soul to Keep

Jan 28, 2012 19:57

Chapter 2: I Pray the Lord My Soul to Keep

Part 1: Her

How could a soul weep? Feel pain? Know sorrow?

Delenn had no answers, only sensations. And her soul did indeed rage with emotions she'd only ever experienced when it was tethered to her vessel of a body. The body that had outlived, outpaced, outmaneuvered all understanding of Minbari and Human ( Read more... )

babylon 5, john sheridan, delenn

Comments 2

vjs2259 February 26 2012, 21:39:12 UTC

I really, really, really like this view of the Minbari afterlife. Afterlifes. Whatever. It's different, and interesting, and I'm biting my nails here.

John and Valen are both true to form, and the idea that Delenn did re-marry, was happy, and that this is preventing her moving on, or back, is unique.

As a total and complete aside, did John connect up with Anna, and did they agree to go their separate ways? Or are the species sequestered in the afterlife and John got a dispensation?

songhay February 27 2012, 23:49:32 UTC

Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts.

I envision two more chapters and will briefly address Anna and some of the other B5 characters in the concluding chapter.

I'm glad my version/interpretation of the place where no shadows fall is plausible. Creating specifics for a Minbari afterlife that makes sense with what JMS wrote has been . . . interesting.