Ecdysis, by astolat, for the Enclosed Spaces challenge

[astolat]

Many thanks to cesperanza, kaneko, julad, bayleaf for looking it over!

Author: astolat
Title: Ecdysis
Category: Gen; Sheppard, team

Summary: He is awake, he thinks. This doesn't feel like dreaming.

Comments

[ex_danvers514]

Oh god, yeah. Very creepy. Cool. I liked this a lot. //but shudders// ;-)

[astolat]

Yay! I have to say, the idea creeped *me* out when I first had it.

[history_gurl]

Oh my.

Haunting and beautiful.

The walls whisper and breathe around him, and the footsteps going past make promises of release.

I hurt. But it's a good hurt.

[astolat]

I hurt. But it's a good hurt.

Woo! Er. Not that I am gloating about causing pain or anything. *g*

[misspamela]

he understands they came for him without permission

God, what a gorgeous way to work volumes of plot into a tiny space. Wonderful.

[astolat]

Thanks! I was desperately trying to cram it all in somehow before the rest of the story could come slowly creeping up suggesting I write it. *g*

[verstehen]

Oh, I really like the way that this could be at several points within canon -- or outside it. At first I thought it was 38 Minutes, but... That confusion, the muddiness, really adds to the short. :)

[astolat]

Yeah, I don't have it really situated in any particular moment in time, in canon; something that happened in the in-between spaces, maybe. :) Thank you!

[astolat]

Thanks! Those cocoons are the creepiest damn thing about the Wraith, for me.