Title: An I for an I
Author's LJ/DWJ: paian
Categories: gen, Teal'c, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: fic: all fic tag
Link to story: An I for an I
Why this should be read: As paian is so brilliant at doing, in a short 580 words, she manages to capture Teal'c's sense of self, his feelings about being on Earth versus Chulak, his quiet nobility, and the millennia that encompass the history since humans were first taken from the first world, scattered amongst the stars, and changed. It's a quietly moving portrait of Teal'c as the self-aware embodiment of the reunion between Jaffa and Earth.


Terrans, someone once told him, are drawn with near-mystical fascination to the seas from which they evolved. The salt of those seas runs in their veins, and the seas call to them. This he believes, though the same salt runs in his veins and if those seas call to him their cry is weak, diluted by the aeons and the light-years, muted by the genetic will of prim'ta and drowned by the synthetic wash of tretonin.