glorious and heartbreaking, and a profoundly great and touching story, as is your wont. I have no words to do it justice, and others have said it so much better. Thank you for writing this moving story.

one small thing that I greatly admired: All along, reading about Rodney's prison and the elaborate lengths that his jailers went to to keep any kind of technological aid from him, how afraid they were of the power of Rodney's mind, even broken and crippled as his mind had gotten, I was thinking how overboard they'd gone, how their precautions said so much more about their fear and guilt and paranoia than about how dangerous Rodney McKay could be. And then you proved me wrong! They were *right* to be so paranoid. They weren't paranoid *enough*. Rodney McKay is possibly the most dangerous man in the galaxy...and now they've pissed him off....