The Oil entity did make its way all the way into Krycek in the end, though.
Eventually, he got too tired to fight hard, but before then, you couldn't quite seep all the way in.
Meep. And it's even more chilling when later on, in the car, it looks like Krycek is willing sacrifice himself in an attempt to take the oil down with him. Which says a lot about Krycek right there: how much he hated being controlled, how far he was willing to go to end it (or for revenge, or both).
The most interesting part of the story for me was the way the Oil entity thought about water, as though it had a consciousness of its own.
At the end we learn that the Oil entity felt envious of water, perhaps for how it is in everything and is everywhere, so effortlessly.
It's like the Oil entity, after having been by itself for so long, is feeling out the idea of belonging to a group consciousness again as it contemplates water.
Does the oil entity simply envy water for water’s freedom, the freedom a citizen has in his or her own world? Water doesn’t have to go to great lengths to succeed, water is where it is supposed to be, and just by existing, without thought, it does the work it was made for. (And it gets to do it in three different states, to boot.)
Does it also envy that the water is a collective, much like the oily mirror image it is drawn back to and ultimately decides to be part of, despite its doubts?
I like a fic that stands up to multiple readings, and there’s a lot here to keep me interested.
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Eventually, he got too tired to fight hard, but before then, you couldn't quite seep all the way in.
Meep. And it's even more chilling when later on, in the car, it looks like Krycek is willing sacrifice himself in an attempt to take the oil down with him. Which says a lot about Krycek right there: how much he hated being controlled, how far he was willing to go to end it (or for revenge, or both).
The most interesting part of the story for me was the way the Oil entity thought about water, as though it had a consciousness of its own.
At the end we learn that the Oil entity felt envious of water, perhaps for how it is in everything and is everywhere, so effortlessly.
It's like the Oil entity, after having been by itself for so long, is feeling out the idea of belonging to a group consciousness again as it contemplates water.
Does the oil entity simply envy water for water’s freedom, the freedom a citizen has in his or her own world? Water doesn’t have to go to great lengths to succeed, water is where it is supposed to be, and just by existing, without thought, it does the work it was made for. (And it gets to do it in three different states, to boot.)
Does it also envy that the water is a collective, much like the oily mirror image it is drawn back to and ultimately decides to be part of, despite its doubts?
I like a fic that stands up to multiple readings, and there’s a lot here to keep me interested.