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I never left you, Spock. I never would.Even when Genesis absorbed your body
a part of me stayed with you.
I knew I would return one day to reclaim what was mine.
Perhaps that's why, watching from the bridge that day,
I felt briefly young again, briefly new.And on Mount Seleya, when your father asked me, "At what cost?"
I told the truth. "If I hadn't tried, it would have cost me my soul."Now you stand before me,
you speak my name,
and with the sound of your voice my soul,
left in your keeping, returns to my body
and I, too, breathe again, live again.I never left you, Spock, and I never will.