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When you disengage from your Alcove that day, you head straight to your Captain.
‘Why did you return for me?’ you ask. Her eyes soften.
‘I will always come find you’ she shrugs, and the words ring in your ears.
When the Admiral breathes out your name, they whisper to you.
On your almost-wedding-day, she’s got the shuttle ready and they’re more insistent.
Icheb dies and she wrestles the phaser from your temple. They scream at you.
You show up one day and she bristles.
But the right words have settled in your heart: ‘I will always come find you.’