Blue Rain

Blue Rain is a poem-ish "reflection" piece written by Daniel around 2007. While the narrator is not stated, it is likely to have originally been the author himself due to similar narratives in Dreams...and What They Mean, The Moro-Mirror, and Dreamscapes.

Timeline
While not originally intended to be part of the timeline, the author made a subsequent attempt to place it. While possibly involving Professor Leinad Dleifneb in the Azumanga Politburo universe, it instead involves Daniel Benfield in the Soviet Union.

Daniel's reference to "only getting one chance" in his portion of An Insignificant Choice (established as taking place in 1924) refers to killing the Soviet Union before it begins, therefore saving many lives; getting the street lights approved was his attempt to gain favor and later work things so the Union to implode, which is consistent with other events during the Earth-bound period.

Vladimir Lenin died in January 1924, so Daniel was likely trying to kill Joseph Stalin. Blue Rain implies that Daniel eventually joined the Union (the author states that he and Hannah did so in 1925), but betrayed to Stalin while he was dying; the author says that the betrayal came first, after which Daniel killed Stalin and the pair hauled butt.

As Daniel would probably have made alliances with Trotsky and Bukharin, this would set the betrayal/death in 1926 and the reflection in 1927, which puts this 57 years before Phases of the Moon and firmly in DBE Series 10.

Links

 * Read it on DeviantArt!