A Dark, Distorted Mirror. Volume 5 : Among the Stars, like Giants. Prologue : The Missing Year addm-5

by Gareth D. Williams

  And was it worth it? What price peace?

  He could not find an answer.

  He walked into the room that had been designated as the conference hall, the place where the representatives would meet, where the decisions would be taken, where the fate of worlds would turn.

  The Vorlon turned to look at him. Its encounter suit was pure white, unmarked by any other colour, unsullied and clean. G'Kar understood that in some cultures white meant purity and virtue.

  All he could see in that gleaming whiteness were bones. Bones of the dead.

  A light twinkled in the Vorlon's eye stalk and G'Kar took a slow step back. For one moment it had looked as if a skull was smiling at him.

  He placed his fists together on his chest and bowed his head slightly. As far as he knew he was one of the first people on Babylon 5 apart from the construction crews, given permission to survey the new base for the Alliance. The others would come later, either being too busy to inspect it now, or not wishing to do so. G'Kar alone wanted to see the finished station as soon as possible.

  He was not terribly surprised to see that the new Vorlon Ambassador had got here before him.

  There was a rush of air, and a sound like dry leaves rustling across a marble tomb. it said.

  G'Kar said nothing in reply. There was nothing to say.

  * * *

  The Babylon 5 station became operational at the end of 2262. The first meetings there took place early in 2263. It was always hoped and believed that Babylon 5 would be a consolidation of the peace that the Shadow War had ultimately brought to the galaxy.

  Unfortunately, this was very far from being the case.

  LAKER, A. (2293) A Shining Beacon in Space. Chapter 14 of The Rise and Fall of the United Alliance, the End of the Second Age and the Beginning of the Third, vol. 3, 2262: The Missing Year. Ed: S. Barringer, G. Boshears, A. E. Clements, D. G. Goldingay & M. G. Kerr.

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