12-19-2024, 07:28 AM
Qi clasped Kalli’s hand. He couldn’t imagine what she must be feeling. He wanted to comfort her somehow, reassure her that sometimes things come back around in a different form, but he didn’t have the words to do it. He let her words sit heavy in the air as she took a sip from her mug. The rumbling bass tones seemed to expand to fill the silence.
“Technically, it would be four people in the relationship if you think about it like that. I was joined with an infant symbiont during our time aboard the Geronimo, though it wasn’t through official means, and it certainly wasn’t my plan. I was sick for weeks. I’ll tell you the story sometime.
“Trust me, it’s just as confusing as it sounds,” Qi added with a laugh. He forgot that joining wasn’t as commonplace for everyone as it was for him. “He’s still himself, for the most part. Sometimes it’s like we’re back in school, then he’ll say something that suddenly makes me feel like I don’t know him at all. Then again, I have a feeling that he feels the same way about me.”
A Ferengi waiter approached. She wore a cozy knit sweater to match the holosuite’s theme. Qi set down his empty mug and selected something that smelled like a hot toddy. He handed her a slip of latinum for her trouble — a Ferengi custom known as ‘tipping’.
“If you want to tell me about your boyfriend, I’m happy to listen. Maybe that’s a small way that you can feel him with you.”
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“Technically, it would be four people in the relationship if you think about it like that. I was joined with an infant symbiont during our time aboard the Geronimo, though it wasn’t through official means, and it certainly wasn’t my plan. I was sick for weeks. I’ll tell you the story sometime.
“Trust me, it’s just as confusing as it sounds,” Qi added with a laugh. He forgot that joining wasn’t as commonplace for everyone as it was for him. “He’s still himself, for the most part. Sometimes it’s like we’re back in school, then he’ll say something that suddenly makes me feel like I don’t know him at all. Then again, I have a feeling that he feels the same way about me.”
A Ferengi waiter approached. She wore a cozy knit sweater to match the holosuite’s theme. Qi set down his empty mug and selected something that smelled like a hot toddy. He handed her a slip of latinum for her trouble — a Ferengi custom known as ‘tipping’.
“If you want to tell me about your boyfriend, I’m happy to listen. Maybe that’s a small way that you can feel him with you.”
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