Title: Signs Taken for Wonders
Author: 2ndary_author
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Characters: Sheppard, mostly
Rating: PG
Length: too long for flashfic, that's for sure
Notes: epigraph from 1.18, “The Gift”. I actually wrote this as once piece, but the segments are not sequential, so ranks, characters, and verb tenses change. Stretching the topic just a little bit, because the coolest thing about alien geography is that it can imprint on your DNA!
Summary: Atlantis dims all her beautiful lights when he leaves.
ETA: the Rodney outtake--posted over at my journal b/c I'm too lazy to reformat and I'm now ridiculously over the word limit.