Wraithling Tales, by perryvic. PG-13

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Hi, I'm thady and I rec gen this month. I'm sorry I'm late.
Without further ado..

Rec Category: Gen
Pairing: None
Category: Atlantis. Alternate Universe, Darkfic, Drama, Episode-Related. Ford, Beckett, Sheppard, McKay, Dex, Emmagan.
Warning: None, really. There might be two or three lines of implied slash if you're very sensitive.
Author on LJ: perryvic
Author's Website: http://www.caffiends.net/
Link: http://www.caffiends.net/viewstory.php?sid=421

Summary: Listen well young Wraithling, for when you wake grown from the Long Sleep and breathe your first taste of sky, and feel the Hunger burn in your fingers you would do well to use more of your mind than the Instinct.

Why this must be read:

I love stories with outsider!pov. This story contains 'bedtime tales' of the Wraith about the humans from Atlantis. It's very fascinating to see our characters though the eyes of the Wraith and see how their actions are judged by their enemy. perryvic manages to create glimpses into a whole (very different) world with these tales. Very gripping and thought provoking.

Listen well young Wraithling, for when you wake grown from the Long Sleep and breathe your first taste of sky, and feel the Hunger burn in your fingers you would do well to use more of your mind than the Instinct.

Out there in the Hunting Dark is more than even the Wisest of Thinkers could understand. Not even the Queens of old ever claimed to understand all the wonders of the Universe, and it contained more wonder -- and more terror than they could ever have thought possible!

Imagine now, reach into the great past-dreaming and see the awe when that famous mind Kailish of the Watchers-Hive first discovered that the great Hungry One was no mere thought by a Thinker, but looked for the first time on one of the infinite Hands of God in the night sky feeding on the very stars themselves.

Then, wraithling of my hive, this was a Great Thought and all Hives shared it, trembling with fervour, rejoicing that they alone of the Universe had been given proof of their superiority. In the Cycle of Wonder, they feasted, claiming as their natural right all life as their food. Through the Cycles to come, more Queens were birthed, and the Wraith became the lords of creation, as was their destiny. They conquered all and abandoned that which had shackled their ancestors. The galaxy was theirs!

But then, in the Cycle of Night, the Thinker Quirna of Heart-eater Hive dreamt another Great Thought as the Hives shared the Long Sleep. If our God was real and manifest, then logic and instinct would state that his spirits of retribution which we had dismissed as mere fancies would have faces here and not merely abstract form. Would there not be punishment for those that defied the laws of the Hungry One? Where we had broken old rules and laws confident in our Right, would that not be a call for retribution?

When the Hives woke then, many were troubled that they had defied laws of the Wise ones and there were Thinkers who spoke of the inevitable turning of all things, from glory to dishonour.

That Cycle was followed by the Cycle of Longest Day and all too soon Thinker Quirna's Great Thought was proved true. In this Cycle, Spirits of vengeance walked, their names a horror, touching Wraith with the anger of the Hungry One and examples made of those who had lost honour.

You will have heard the names, young Wraithling, perhaps thought yourself stronger and braver than those who fell to their silent minds. Young minds dream of glory, of defeating these monsters when all else have failed.

The Warrior, The Thinker, The Healer, the DreamWalker, the Runner, the Half-Wild...