[ Her hands stay wrapped around the watch in her lap, cradling it like it's the most precious thing in the world. And for her, it very well might be — if the ship were going down and she could only take one physical item with her, it might be the one she grabbed. Not her graduation certificate, or the starfish from her first trip with Una, but this relic of a time only she will ever remember.

She curls in on herself a little, her head bent forward so her hair falls over her shoulders, but she doesn't hide. Her walls are too damaged to put back up tonight, so this is the best she can do to protect herself from the emotional onslaught looming around every corner. ]

They all enjoyed it. [ Despite how much it hurts to think of him and their time together, the fondness she feels for the other James Tiberius Kirk shines through the pain. ] Everyone smiled and shook his hand, and he was so pleased with himself. He said he used to play with his first officer until she got tired of losing, and then he tried to order me to eat a hot dog.

[ The last actually brings a watery laugh out of her, though her smile fades after a moment. ] We were walking by the water and he... He stopped to look at the sunset. He'd never seen one before.