I've just finished reading Tanith Lee's book "Kill the Dead". This is the one where the lead character is an avatar of Avon. He's called Parl Dro (geddit?). The second lead is called Myal Lemyal and is a Vila avatar. Having read it, I also think that the lead female character Ciddey Soban has a lot in common with Cally, even though as far as I know she has never been acknowledged by Tanith as an avatar.
Parl Dro is a ghost hunter, He goes around killing ghosts, hence the title. Myal is a travelling minstrel, pickpocket and coward, with odd glimpses of bravery - she caught Vila's character very well. The basic plot is that Parl arrives in a village on the way to a legendry ghost town that nobody ever comes back from. He meets up with Myal in an inn, and he is also, for reasons he doesn't know, looking for this town. He tells himself that he wants to write a song about it. While in the village, Parl rids Ciddey of her ghost sister and she avows revenge on him because she liked having her ghost sister around.
That sets up the basic story without giving too much away as to how it develops. Her dialogue of Parl and Myal, especially when they are talking with each other, is very good, and you can hear Avon and Vila saying the lines. The story itself meanders a bit and gets a bit dull in parts, but still pulls you back into the tale often enough to keep you interested, when it sometimes becomes hard to put down. There are also some nice twists and turns on the way and at the end.
In conclusion, it should be on the to-read list of any B7 fan. Here we have a person who wrote two episodes of the series and is a well-known fantasy writer merging her two disciplines.
-- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson
Redemption 03, 21-23 February 2003, Ashford, Kent Celebrating 25 years of Blake's 7 and 10 years of Babylon 5 http://www.smof.com/redemption