Making myself useful again:

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Conversations With Starlight

You mean Rom is here? Oh, that was Spaceknight. Not Starlight. Nevermind.

The patriarch of House Fanel looked on in wonder at
his guest after it had discarded the bulky encounter suit
that it had used for the majority of its time with him.

Darn Vorlons, always cluttering up the place with their crappy space suits.

The

Old One presented itself to him when the colony ships where
about to leave and had proven itself a boon companion in
the long voyage towards the Periphery.

He could Macarena. Always a party favorite in space.

"You're...you're..." The white-haired old man
dithered as he tried to voice his mind.

"Expectations are always shattered."

Except when they are met instead. :)

The voice was

strangely melodic. Crenis was having difficulty equating it
with the distorted voice that had always seemed to boom
from the hulking encounter suit.

"You are one of us!" The statement came out in a
surprised exclamation.

Hense the exclamation point. :)

His old friend looked at him with sad eyes. "It is a
terrible, terrible thing to be one of the things

two use of 'thing's. Change the second to 'one of those you call'

"The seals over me have been broken and the Eternal
Present roars inside my thoughts. For me there is no Past
nor Future, there is only now. It will help greatly in what
we need to do."

"And what is that, Old One?"

"The Defiance will face many trials and many pains.
It is a painfully long and tortuous path before your people.
A few guideposts are in order. The setting up of these
guideposts are my doing. My otherselves

two words (I think)

That was where the voice whisper-boomed into his
ears, heart and mind. It was the delicate lover's caress
and the whip of the overseer.

"i Am tHe sTaRs. ThE UnIvErSe MaDe MaNiFeSt. tHiS
iS wHaT tHe lAdY wAnTs fOr yOu aLl. In ThE EnD."

Crenis said, "You seem to be having problems with your caps key."

The harshest and most painful way to achieve
Enlightenment is always the easiest.

Then the endless moment was over and before him was
the beautiful young woman that had taken off the encounter
suit.

"I understand now." He

now," he

whispered in awe.

"Not totally but one day you will."

Crenis smiled. "Yes. I think I will."

He looked at the encounter suit. "It seem

seems

you will not

be needing it anymore."

"Yes."

"Then it seems I won't be calling you Kosh anymore.
Where did you pick up that name, anyway?"

"It is a name I have heard...will hear of... it is
from the future and the past and the present. I thought
it would be appropriate."

"For a god, you still have real problems with tenses' Crenis mentioned.

Escaflowne is cool, plus the background for it spans
the right amount of time for sticking things in my timeline.
The technical inclusion of OMG! and Babylon 5 via
'Belldandy'/'Kosh' is another cute thing I've always thought
of. Besides, the Old One of the Present is a bit of a joker.
Personally, I think it would have been cooler to have Belldandy
in that Kosh outfit. ^_^

Nah. She was two shapely to be bogged down in a suit like that. :)

Still wanting to see the story these all lead into.

D.B. Sommer



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