Why I love Penumbra: Reason #957
from Parabiosis by Penumbra
SPOILERS here, if that bothers you.
He must know for her sake. She is rare earth, rara avis, the quietest place inside him.
He sees that the planet is battered and beautiful, an orb scorched and flooded, lit by watch fires, a place where he has been stung by sea monsters and healed by holy men. The place where Scully threw in her lot with his, because she saw where others did not.
I don't think two people could have been happier than we were -
The ship lifts, spins. It will rise through the stratosphere, past the dying sun and the reaches beyond, and he will believe.
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