[It takes a bit for that to sink in; when it does, but one thought crosses her mind:
The nukes.
It had once been said that nuclear energy only created the urgency to solve an existing problem. Enterprise finds herself echoing those words in her head as, instinct and habit telling her to simply grip his shoulder in solidarity, her heart ached for something more than a simple gesture of good faith. After hearing of that, what her heart needed mattered more in that instant than what she was so used to doing with other soldiers.
It is with that thought in mind that she wraps her arms around him in a tight hug -- a gesture she spared for her own sister in her final moments at sea.]
...no person should ever have to witness that kind of hell first-hand.
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The nukes.
It had once been said that nuclear energy only created the urgency to solve an existing problem. Enterprise finds herself echoing those words in her head as, instinct and habit telling her to simply grip his shoulder in solidarity, her heart ached for something more than a simple gesture of good faith. After hearing of that, what her heart needed mattered more in that instant than what she was so used to doing with other soldiers.
It is with that thought in mind that she wraps her arms around him in a tight hug -- a gesture she spared for her own sister in her final moments at sea.]
...no person should ever have to witness that kind of hell first-hand.