Islands by Nicola Mody (gen)

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Fandom: Blakes 7
Pairing: none
Author on LJ: vilakins
Author Website: Breaking Orbit
Why this must be read:
This focuses less on Vila than some of Nico's do; it's a season 3 one which involves three people – Avon, Vila and Cally – who've all recently lost something they loved. Something they find in space gives them an alternative to the rather sad state they are in, and one of them is tempted by it. The bit I'd like to quote is, strangely enough, near the very end, so don't read it if you don't want to know yet. But it's very haunting.

It watched them go with regret. Many of its pets—it had found the concept in some of the minds it had preserved copies of—had not expired well. Many had come to find objects on the dead ships which would enable them to acquire more objects, and some of those had hastened the ends of their companions to delay their own. Some though had displayed a dimmer version of what had blazed briefly like little suns from these three. Something too large for the little word that described it in their minds.

Islands