A Long Drawn-Out Breath and an Impossible Sky, by Magistrate (PG)

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Show: Stargate SG-1

Rec Category: Samantha Carter
Characters: Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, team
Het/Slash/Gen: Gen
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: draegonhawke
Author's Website: Magistrate at AO3
Link: A Long Drawn-Out Breath and an Impossible Sky

Why This Must Be Read: This fic is gorgeous and twisty and almost lyrical as Sam struggles with alien perceptions and tries to make sense out her altered state. Fantastic Wonder Twins interaction, lovely teamy goodness bits, and Sam in all her quintissential Samness. A deep, thoughtful read that just echoes with the wonder of the Stargate, and Sam herself.


Daniel leaned forward. "One of the defining characteristics of sentience is the ability to create complex maps of signification and meaning. And these – they don't arise, fully-formed, out of the natural order of things. They're arbitrary. Inherently, the ways in which we map meaning has no meaning."

For a second, that made a horrible amount of sense. She rested her palms on her knees, tried not to let her fingers curl inward. "So I'm losing sentience."

"What?" Daniel seemed surprised. Hell if she knew. Hell if she could tell anything. "No, Sam, your perception is shifting. You said yourself, it seemed to mean something."

"It all means something," she said.

Daniel took her hand and put it within his.