B5 Double Drabble: Unsettling

[badly_knitted]

 


Title: Unsettling
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Londo.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 500: Amnesty 50 at drabble_zone, using Challenge 483: Shiver.
Spoilers/Setting: In the Kingdom of the Blind.
Summary: For the first time, Londo finds the Royal Palace an unsettling place to be.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 

An unexpected chill ran down Londo’s spine. Always, in the past, the Centauri Royal Palace had been a place of safety, somewhere he felt he belonged, without question. Even when Cartagia had been Emperor, there’d still been a welcome familiarity in its opulence and grandeur, a kind of changelessness, even a promise that the Centauri would someday rise once more to their former power and glory.

 
Now, however, even though the palace looked exactly as it always did, even smelled the same, of expensive perfumes, spices, incense, and the finest aged Brivari, it felt somehow subtly wrong. There was a coldness he’d never felt there before, a chill seeping from the shadows that felt like icy fingers trailing down his back. Not in a physical sense, but it was nonetheless real, and disturbing.

 
The attempt on his life hardly even seemed surprising, given the atmosphere that pervaded every corridor, every chamber, of the greatest monument to Centauri superiority that had ever been erected. Separated from G’Kar, unable to count on his bodyguard for protection, Londo had been ready to fight for his life, only to be saved by someone he never saw. Somehow, that only served to deepen his disquiet.

 
 
The End



 
 
 

Comments

[mrs_sweetpeach]

Was that when one of his wives saved him?

[senmut]

Nicely done!