Snippet from The Assassination Game
After I saw this, I knew I had to buy this book.
She turned. They were close now. Close enough for her to feel the rise and fall of his chest, to reach out and lay her palm there and feel the beating of his halfhuman, half-Vulcan heart. But there was still too wide a gulf of duty and propriety and fear between them for her to do that. They stood as close as two people could without touching and held each other with their eyes instead.
-from “The Assassination Game” (Starfleet Academy novel series)
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She turned. They were close now. Close enough for her to feel the rise and fall of his chest, to reach out and lay her palm there and feel the beating of his halfhuman, half-Vulcan heart. But there was still too wide a gulf of duty and propriety and fear between them for her to do that. They stood as close as two people could without touching and held each other with their eyes instead.
-from “The Assassination Game” (Starfleet Academy novel series)
(this was posted on the spockuhura appreciation tumblr at http://spockuhuralove.tumblr.com. If you're not a member of tumblr but would like to see the posts, you can do so on your live journal at tumblr_sulove)