Big Bang Fic: On Whom the Pale Moon Gleams (Chapter 1)

Title: On Whom the Pale Moon Gleams
Characters: Kara, Daniel, background Kara/Lee
Rating: PG-13
Words: ~15,500 (1,400 this chapter)
Summary: On the other side of the maelstrom, Kara wakes up to truths she never expected.
A/N: Cheers to everyone at bsg_epics for coordinating and participating in the Big Bang! This is in eight chapters - I'll post it over the week, but rest assured, it is finished! :)

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We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world forever, it seems.
- Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy

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( He hums softly as he waits for her to awaken. The music flows out of him; he hasn't felt this kind of joy in years. )