Miscellaneous Primeval Drabbles

• Nanites for Helen
• Rain - Written for fififolle who asked if I'd written any Connor/Ryan angst.
• White Landscape - Written for a primeval_canon drabble tree.
• Just Us - Written to see how many people I could kill in 100 words. I make it 6.7 billion, but most people only allow me the fourteen actually named. Some are picky and insist on only the four confirmed kills. One person tried to claim that even one of them didn't count. (fanon (see under Lester/Lyle))
• Food of the Fairies - A reaction to episode 3.03 and following on from Head, Hand and Heart
• Thinking in Four Dimensions - A Follow up drabble to challenge drabble 173. Inspired by Ted Chiang's short story Story of Your Life
• The Listeners - A crossover with Walter de la Mere's poem of the same name.

Thinking in Four Dimensions

Thinking in four dimensions; you started seeing every event as the moments and choices that led up to it. You build models of causality, like the letters of an alphabet. The words of this new language stretched into the future. Nick ceased to be surprised by events. He had the opportunity to weigh the outcomes of every choice. It wasn't that he wanted to die, but he rejected each route that avoided death: Connor dead, body broken; Helen triumphant; Jenny's face burned, her mind gone.

The greatest gift, the language of time, hidden in the artifact, he gave to Connor.

The Listeners

"Did you find them?" Stephen asked.

Ryan's cloak was made of a black velvet that seemed to absorb the light. It turned him into nothing more than a shadow, lurking in the centre of the forest path.

"Maybe," Ryan's head turn to stare back the way he had come.

"You came as soon as you could." Stephen could hear a certain shrillness in his insistence.

"It wasn't enough."

A flock of ravens suddenly rose up from the forest depths, the air echoing with their harsh cries.

"It's all you have to give," Stephen offered and wished he could offer more.