Темное, кривое зеркало. Том 5 : Средь звезд, подобно гигантам.(ЛП)

"У меня есть собственные причины. Позволь нам просто сказать, что бессмертие — это дар, которого не заслуживает никто. И то, что сделали с тобой ворлонцы… Такого не заслужил никто."

"Что они скажут?"

"Ворлонцы будут знать. От одного Изначального к другому — они узнают. Твой народ — они будут шептаться и строить домыслы. Они будут искать, но никогда не найдут твоего тела. Они будут искать, но не найдут твоей души. Тогда они скажут лишь что ты ушел, и так оно и будет."

"Хорошо. Я так устал. Я так страшно устал."

"И теперь ты можешь отдохнуть."

"Да…. теперь можно отдохнуть."

…

"Вечно."

Gareth D. Williams Part 3 On the Edges of Perception.

For a year and a half, he has been gone.  Shrouded in mystery and rumour, he has been walking in the shadows at the corner of the mind's eye.  It is time for him to return.  As the Brotherhood Without Banners prepares the next stage of its devastating campaign of terror, as Dexter Smith struggles to investigate what is happening to the telepaths, as G'Kar learns some horrifying secrets, and as Sheridan stares into the abyss of his own soul, Sinoval will reach out his hand and return to the galaxy.  And two steps behind him.... is Sebastian.

Chapter 1

It is impossible to discuss the final years of the Alliance without mentioning the individual people involved. More than anything else, the Alliance was the creation of individuals, and the events which led to its collapse especially so. General Sheridan the Shadowkiller, the Blessed Delenn, G'Kar the Messiah, Emperor Londo — all of these cast long shadows over the exploits of others, but they were only the stars at the zenith of the firmament. Others moved and acted, their movements and actions perhaps smaller and more shadowed, but every bit as significant.

Without Vejar, without Dexter Smith, without Talia Winters or Lennier or Jorah Marrago, could events have transpired as they did? Would Delenn or Sheridan or the others have been able to act without them?

But of course, if we are to talk about individuals, there is one who cannot be ignored, who cannot be forgotten, no matter how much some might wish to.

Primarch Sinoval the Accursed will be with us always.

For good or ill.

WATKINS, J. K. (2295) A Cathedral of the Ages: The Sinoval Conspiracy.

Chapter 4 of The Rise and Fall of the United Alliance, the End of the

Second Age and the Beginning of the Third, vol. 4, The Dreaming Years.

Ed: S. Barringer, G. Boshears, A. E. Clements, D. G. Goldingay &

M. G. Kerr.

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