NYOTA. 

✦ ✧  ❛ So, what, you want to have a discussion about the relationship you ended in the middle of the bridge? ❜

    She speaks without stopping, a blur of motion bleeding scarlet onto a gleaming white landscape, pure as starshine. And she is only one drop of many. Blue and red and gold, they scurry with haste and purpose, but she with her back stiff and her shoulders ramrod straight…

    She is a lioness among house cats. And she will not alter her course for him. Not today.

         ❛ It isn’t broken, Commander, ❜ she informs him with an ease and coolness she doesn’t truly feel. ❛ It was an agreement. Between two intelligent beings. That’s all. ❜

                     AGREEMENT.    ——-   he   hasn’t   forgotten   ,   no   ,   he   can’t   forget.   words   he   had    FORCED   WITH   FAUX   EASE   ,     a   duty   he   felt   obligated   to   fill.    but   he   looks   upon   her   stern   visage   now   ,   the   strong   -    hold    she   encompassed    and    he   pretends   to    not   notice   his    own   regret   rooting    itself    in    his   thoughts.    (   SHE   UNDERSTANDS   )    understands   his   sudden   departure   ,    a   leave   he    must   take.    in   the   name   of   his   mother   ,   of   VULCAN    LEGACY.  

              ‘    nyota,    ‘    and   it   rolls   from   his   tongue   so   INTIMATELY   ,    with    a   comfort   only   she  garners.    ‘      i    do   not   wish    to    DWELL    on    such   a   topic.    yet    I   ADMIT    it   was   not   a   proper   environment   to   discuss   a   future   in.    ‘     he   had   been   battered    with   the   captain’s   disapproval    about    his   choice   to     “   end    it     “     on    the   BRIDGE.