Like you, I enjoyed the narrator's musings about being dead. They stood out to me in particular since I wrote a post-col piece for an XF Lyric Wheel (Through Walls (http://www.bardsmaid.org/XF/thruwalls.htm)) that, while principally about Mulder trapped in a colonist holding pen, involves the ghost of Krycek. Writing K's part became an intriguing exercise because of his non-living status, and I'm really glad I was pressed to explore that.
I found this story to be well-done and engaging. While I enjoy the mysteries inherent in the XF universe, I often find case file fics to have less character development than I'm looking for, which would include this one (though that's just my personal preference and not a reflection on this story or the author.) However, I really did like the ghost-as-narrator, the gradual revelation of who the narrator was, and the fact that it wasn't one of those formulaic case files that seem only to be a set-up for MSR. And I liked that Scully was the one to have the premonitions this time. It's not common, but it's plausible and gives the realm of XF cases a nice, fresh spin.
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Date: 2007-12-06 03:12 am (UTC)I found this story to be well-done and engaging. While I enjoy the mysteries inherent in the XF universe, I often find case file fics to have less character development than I'm looking for, which would include this one (though that's just my personal preference and not a reflection on this story or the author.) However, I really did like the ghost-as-narrator, the gradual revelation of who the narrator was, and the fact that it wasn't one of those formulaic case files that seem only to be a set-up for MSR. And I liked that Scully was the one to have the premonitions this time. It's not common, but it's plausible and gives the realm of XF cases a nice, fresh spin.