Oh, I liked that. The last paragraph pulled it all together. And here I'd been expecting something depressing, what with the total isolation that the three of them had been feeling at the start, (and also because I'd just read "Mirror Image" and "Sand is Another Word for Grit" which were both rather angsty and depressing -- this was a welcome relief. Not that it wasn't angsty too. I can so see Avon's reaction to the nebula, wanting to die and live without pain...