Five-things Prompt 1.02

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Five things Daniel wishes he could tell his parents.

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[sef1029]

Five things Daniel wishes he could tell his parents

[jenlev]

ah, sweet and vital about the burst of joy. and wonderful plan for his retirement.

and #3 is so poignant and i love how you write his interaction with sha'uri.

and his repsonse to nick's death feels very him.

[sef1029]

Thank you! I had to google to make sure Budge was a real figure...and he definitely is.

[jenlev]

although daniel would say he's not a figure of great stature? er, is that the right word? ;)

[sef1029]

Yep, it's a good word. And apparently Daniel is not alone in his opinion of Budge.

[jenlev]

that's reassuring. *bg*

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they’d opened far more worlds for him than they had closed -- Love that. Also And in countless parallel universes his mother and father were growing old together. #3 is creative and beautifully imagined and moved me very much. It's really cool that you covered what becomes of Nick, and Daniel's realistic reaction to it. And in #2 I love that sense that he's been in dialogue with his parents about his career this whole time, even though he was still a little boy when they died -- as if they've had all these talks about what field he would go into and what he would concentrate on, and he took a somewhat different path from what they agreed on but he still wants their approval and hopes he can make them proud.

[sef1029]

Thank you so much.

[starglyph]

#1 was so wonderful,really. And we all know what that little gust of wind means *g*

[sef1029]

Yes. ;-) And thank you.

[green_grrl]

These are wonderfully crafted vignettes of Daniel's life that contain entire stories. I thnk I'm especially haunted by: He was OK. And in countless parallel universes his mother and father were growing old together. Oh Daniel!

[sef1029]

Thank you. I have to think parallel universes aren't bad as compensation for a worldview without a conventional heaven...especially when you've actually encountered some of those people.

[green_grrl]

Yes, but it brings its own hell, too -- for every universe where things have gone better, there are universes where things have gone horribly, painfully wrong. However for the boy that lost his parents, knowing that they do live on somewhere has to be a comfort.