gedulah

Home is the sailor, home from the sea, and the hunter home from the hill. Or: Daniel comes back after thirteen years on Atlantis, and finds that it's a bit like coming out from under Elf Hill. It's not the fall that will kill you: it's the sudden stop at the end.

(Originally posted 2010-05-27; entry size limits meant that it had to go into two parts, and the comments are on part two.)This story is an AU of an AU of an AU: it's a different take on Mezzanine, which itself is a mashup of Take These Broken Wings and the Cammieverse. (Yes, we often found ourselves wishing for a roadmap.) The title, "Gedulah" -- Hebrew for "greatness" or "majesty" -- is another name for the sephirah chesed -- often mistranslated as "mercy", but really meaning "lovingkindness". The first of the story stands alone as is, so I've marked it complete for now, but there's a lot (a lot) more of it to come when energy and inspiration allows; we have a considerable amount of it finished, but there's a lot more that needs to be written to glue it all together. We'll add the rest to this story when we get it done.