On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Chris Davies wrote:
Ares had taken it on himself to explain a few of the finer points
of divinity to both of them, lecturing even as they wrestled ceaselessly.
And one of the more salient points had been how to read the ambience, so
ambience?
Gabrielle stared right back. "You think I'd make something like
that *up*? I was the bard! It was *frightening*! I --" She paused, then
went on in a slightly accusatory manner. "You still think this is all some
vision you dreamed up after eating BLANK, don't you?"
BLANK?
Gabrielle was actually used to this level of unresponsiveness.
Xena had been *almost* this bad when they'd first met. The problem was
that Xena had also gotten better as time had passed and the two of them
had grown closer. So Gabrielle was a bit out of practice.
had passed, and the
Well, that was true. `Priss and the Nexus-7' *had* had a booking
any relation to Blake's Seven? :)
"Um ..." the bard began. "That was a nice story!"
Heh. Gabrielle tries to put the best face on everything.
Linna slowly began to edge back from the console, as visions of
explosions electric discharges leaping from the controls danced through
I think there's a few words missing here.
To a certain degree, I am paralleling characters, but this isn't a
Xena "uber-fic" (one inspired by the episode "The Xena Scrolls", setting
later incarnations of Xena and Gabrielle in other settings.) Leon is,
natuarally, paralleling Joxer. No points for guessing who Madigan's
paralleling.
Elvis of course!
That was fun!
John Walter Biles : MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas
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If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that
was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the
Marring be amended, Manwe and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it,
and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos.
--Final Line of The Silmarillion