Babylon 5 fic for Mismatched Tropes Flash

[sholio]

The Mismatched Tropes Flash exchange had author reveals while I was traveling, and I wrote:

Last Minute Save (Vir & Londo, 1600 words)
In which Vir gets drugged and almost kidnapped/intergalactically trafficked, and Londo gets to be a Big Damn Hero.

p.s. Incredibly random Tumblr poll on whether Centauri or Narns have a higher body temperature FOR SCIENCE. (And fic.) If you do not have a Tumblr account, feel free to provide opinions in a comment.

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[brightknightie]

FWIW, for science (ahem), in my not-yet-finished-with-the-series headcanon, the Narn evolved from some kind of reptile, while the Centauri evolved from some kind of bird (though I could be easily convinced to entertain something in the porcupine line instead). This would give the Centauri a higher innate body temperature, and the Narns a higher preferred environmental temperature.

[sholio]

PORCUPINES. (Every non-Centauri on Babylon 5 would have a field day finding out Londo and his people evolved from some small prickly mammal, I'm sure.)

I tend to think of the Narns as having evolved from something that doesn't really track with Earth's animal classes - they seem to have all the general qualities of a mammal except for body hair - but I'm realizing that I've been thinking of them as warmer for no particular reason except just "it feels right" and cooler Narns make a lot of sense with what we see of them on B5 (the heavy clothes in particular that they're almost never seen without, and the reddish light in the quarters could be some kind of heat lamp situation).