Forty-Fathom Dreams by Janne

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Title: Forty-Fathom Dreams
Category: ficlet, gen
Wordcount: 150
Summary: It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening - Rudyard Kipling

Thanks to torakowalski for waking up long enough to give this a once over.




Their dreams are ice-slow and just as cold, pushing slowly through endless, uncountable moments, thoughts moving as patiently and inexorably as a glacier. They dream away their passage through stars and space, sinking ever further into the coldest sleep. Memories merge until each heartbeat and thought is one, is all, and always was.

Sometimes they dream of food so plentiful they can simply reach out a hand and take, and they smile in their slumber. Sometimes they dream of food that has to be hunted. Their lips curl then too, but too fiercely to be a smile, though the feeling is like joy.

And, always, there is the hunger. Constant. Unchangeable. Muted but never sated. Under, over, twisting into and through every other feeling, gnawing at the edge of awareness.

Not yet, but sometime soon, it will begin to bite.

Soon, they will rise.

Soon, their hunger will be fed.

Comments

[delurker.livejournal.com]

Oooh, a nice look into the wraith hive mind. I like the idea of them all dreaming slowly together.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Thanks - the hive mind concept is really interesting because it is so hard to imagine how it would work.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Okay, I didn't get right away that this was a wraith hive. But, with that thought, it's great. Thanks.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Cheers, glad you enjoyed it.

[hotels-inthesea.livejournal.com]

that sounds like the voiceover that you get when you're watching a movie preview, and there's flashes of images from the movie. And, it sounds like an AWESOME movie. :)
All that's missing is the movie title stated at the end. It would either be "Stargate Atlantis: The Movie" or..
"Hive."
("in cinemas december 2005")

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

"Stargate Atlantis: The Movie" - that would be so cool! I wish it was in cinemas Dec 05. I'm now imagining James Earl Jones doing the voice over...

[hotels-inthesea.livejournal.com]

hahaha! Really? Personally, i was imagining Teal'c...

[sjkasabi.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, what a clever response tot he challenge. And chilling in the writing.

Cool.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Chilling was the aim.

[kellifer-k.livejournal.com]

Nice take on the challenge.

*shivers*

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Ta very much! It wasn't what I had in mind when I read the challenge at all but my subconscious apparently had other ideas.

[winter-rogue.livejournal.com]

love this. the imagery is perfect and chilling.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Thank you.

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

Thanks to torakowalski for waking up long enough to give this a once over -- You made me sound like a Wraith! *g*

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Oops, my bad. Though... energy-sucking transvestite vampire freaks - you're right, it sounds just like you! *ducks and runs away*

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

Hey! *sticks out tongue*

See if I write you any more Atlantis..! And that House piece I might one day get finished? Nope, not gonna let you read that either ;)

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry! *grovels at your feet in abject apology*

Write me more Atlantis, pleeeeeeease... And since when do you write House?

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

Write me more Atlantis, pleeeeeeease -- Yeah, okay :) Like I can stop at the moment anyway!

And since when do you write House? -- The muse was strong over the summer, then my House voice started sounding like Hugh Laurie and it all kind of died :(

[alizarin-nyc.livejournal.com]

Pretty and poetic.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly.

[melagan.livejournal.com]

Chilling and creepy. They do seem to be all about the “hunger” don’t they?

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Yeah, hunger does seem to be pretty much a defining characteristic for them. I started off thinking cheerful things about chocolate cakes and McKay and then my brain went "Wraith. Hungry" at me and that was that.

[canadian-snoopy.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that is *shivery*. And here I thought that this challenge would be all about the chocolate cake!

*Very* nicely done.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

See, I wanted to write about chocolate cake, it just didn't work out that way!

Thanks for the comment.

[kiku65.livejournal.com]

"I started off thinking cheerful things about chocolate cakes and McKay and then my brain went "Wraith. Hungry" at me and that was that."

Yes, I can imagine how thinking of Rodney would lead you to a creature with unsaitable appetite... ;)

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

You know, that link never actually occurred to me before! Thank you for pointing it out :-)

[hajimebassaidai.livejournal.com]

Cold, scary & very well done!

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Excellent - thank you very much.