Title: Hidden
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: John Sheridan, Kosh.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200
Spoilers/Setting: Mid-Season 2.
Summary: The Vorlons are a mystery Sheridan is determined to solve.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 417: Amnesty 69, using Challenge 34: Masks.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Double drabble.



No one knows what a Vorlon looks like inside its encounter suit; no one’s ever seen one, except for Benjamin Kyle, and he’s never told anyone what he learned while saving Kosh’s life. Lyta Alexander only touched the Vorlon’s mind, so what, if anything, she really ‘saw’ is anyone’s guess.

The Vorlons are secretive, more than any other race earth has ever met, using their encounter suits like a mask to hide everything about themselves from the rest of the universe. Their appearance, their physiology, what and how they eat, it’s all a matter of endless speculation. They must have their reasons, but no one knows what those reasons might be.

Truthfully, the Vorlons seem more alien, and more unfathomable, than all the other races put together, and perhaps that’s why Sheridan is so determined to learn everything he can about them. He knows it won’t be easy, Kosh’s inscrutability makes it near impossible to understand him even when the ambassador does deign to speak to him. But Sheridan loves a good mystery, and he’s stubborn enough to keep trying, even though it’s like trying to prise rivets from the station’s hull with his teeth.

Somehow, he'll get his answers.


The End