"I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light." - The Minbari Grey Council mantra.
This fic reminds me that for everyone who can retain a brush of innocence, who can escape the touch of destruction, there has to be someone willing to stand in that gap, to face those things to protect other from the same.
Ed protects Al in so many ways, in so many layers and on so many levels, it's impossible to count them all.