>"All right," he said, "I guess if I have to go anywhere that isn't
>home, this 'Valhalla' of yours is as good as any." He took Corwin's
>offered hand. "Are there other quarians there?"
>
>"Lots," Corwin told him as the haze began, in turn, to dissipate in a
>blaze of white light.
>
>"Well, that's something."

He even gets himself some mildly snarky dying words. Nice touch, and fully in character -- Vedik's quietly-wry sense of humor is probably my favorite of his (many, sterling) character traits.

This was a good piece, and Vedik fully deserved to have his last moments be more than the secondhand reference in Correspondence.