A/N: With the wonderful feedback I have received, I decided to continue with a second double-drabble (200 words)
Home
She pushes two objects into his hands, activating the first with the touch of her finger, and gently positioning his arm to cradle the other. "Be safe," she whispers, as she dials the final symbol of the Ancestors and gestures him towards the stone ring.
He panics. "What will I tell them?"
There is universe of pain reflected in her eyes as she gazes upon him one last time. The Wraith draw near, their weapons striking uncomfortably close. "They will know," she breathes, and she crumples to the ground, defeated by the enemy.
He throws himself through the ring, thinking of his rope ladder and how it had been here all along. Just before he leaves, a strange feeling overcomes him, masked by the sensation of passing through the portal to the stars.
He lands on the other side with a shaky balance, and he looks up to find five people assembled before him. The farthest one stares at him incredulously, and the boy remarks in some distant part of his consciousness that they share the same cerulean eyes.
"Home?" he whispers, but the full effect of the stunner overcomes him, and as he falls to the ground he wonders if he ever should have hoped at all.