FICLET: The Walls of Jericho, Jack/Daniel. Partlet - 8

[icarus]

The Walls of Jericho - 8 (from part 1 here)
by Icarus



Even the pictures didn't prepare Jack for the 'village.' There were no outlying buildings, no farms or suburbs gradually leading to a town square. No open air markets or chickens and whatnot. Just a path and one great, big, impenetrable door, the size you'd find on a castle, probably three stories tall. It was intricately carved with long, forbidding faces, and symbols that Daniel had said were unlike any pictographic language he'd seen. Which meant: not a transplanted human society. Genuinely alien, if humanoid.

Jack gazed up at the door, looking for windows -- or arrow slits. Any clue as to what these people were like militarily. There was nothing he could see. The door seemed to be strictly defensive.

"Well," he turned to his team. Teal'c peered up at it with undaunted curiosity. "Someone ring the doorbell."

Daniel folded his arms. "Actually, we don't know how."

"Oh for crying…" Jack walked up and knocked. There wasn't a trace of an echo, and the door could've dented his P-90. "Ow."

He shook the jangle out of his fingers and ignored the sly smiles exchanged between Daniel and Carter. "What is that stuff?"

"A form of basalt, sir," Carter explained. "An incredibly hard igneous rock."

Daniel scanned it with wonder on his face. "It must have taken them centuries to carve all this. Generations spent just on this door, like the gothic cathedrals of medieval Europe."

Jack was impressed. A door like that had to have the mother of all hinges. "So what do we do now?"

"Clearly we wait," Teal'c said.


Part 9 here. More coming.

Comments

[kuteki.livejournal.com]

Yay! More of this. I have to say I very much like these regular, short installments, they are like sweets :)

And this is lovely, the conversation could be stright from an episode, can't wait to see Jack and Daniel alone what's behind the door.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

*beams* That's the idea. Parts small enough to not need a cut-tag, no big committment to read a huge story in one sitting, for a nice involved fic.

More coming this afternoon.

Icarus

[setissma.livejournal.com]

Really, this just keeps getting better and better.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you. I was talking to lizardspots and wildernessguru last night about the alien civilization, if it was too much of a distraction or what. WG said go with the main plotline and dump the details about the aliens. Lizard suggested that I make the alien civilization a stronger part of the plot to balance the rest. I went with Lizard's suggestion, and I think it was good advice.

Oh. And part(let)s 9, 10, and 11 are up. I'm cruisin' today. I don't intend for this to be a saga that goes on forever.

Icarus

[cyanei.livejournal.com]

Mmm... I likes. I thought the changes to part-whatever-it-was were really good. They made it more flow-y and what-not. (Gosh, I'm tired. Can you tell?)

I really like Daniel in this piece. The dialogue (and facial-expressions!) are very ... him. You definitely have a good feel for him. ( :

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Mmm... I likes. I thought the changes to part-whatever-it-was were really good. They made it more flow-y and what-not. (Gosh, I'm tired. Can you tell?)

Yep! But it's fine, I'm just happy to know you're reading. And very glad you re-read the edited sections.

I really like Daniel in this piece. The dialogue (and facial-expressions!) are very ... him. You definitely have a good feel for him. ( :

Cool. I've been saturating in Danielness this weekend, to be able to get him down. (Hmm. That sounds, um...)

Icarus

[kres.livejournal.com]

Two things:

1) arrow slits

2) the mother of all hinges

Did I say 'in character'?

:)=