FIC: Like the Stars, Like Your Destiny (1/5)

[anodyna]

Like the Stars, Like Your Destiny
Part 1 of 5

Title: Like the Stars, Like Your Destiny
Author: anodyna
Characters/Pairings: Nyota Uhura, Spock/Uhura, Gaila, Spock Prime & ensemble
Rating: R for sensuality and Vulcan poetry references
Warnings: Vulcan poetry references!
Summary: Nyota Uhura has always been drawn to things that resist her

Comments

[recumbentgoat]

wow. this takes me away. completely! LOL i love her reading Anouk Ashai books!

[anodyna]

Thanks! I really enjoyed inventing that series. Now I sort of want to read those books myself. :)

[wishfulclicking]

Nyota watches out the window as the transport pulls away and her mother and aunt grow smaller and smaller on the platform. "I could not have parted with you for anything less than the whole universe," she whispers to their tiny figures. She turns around in her seat and draws a deep, calming breath. Then she says it again, in Kiswahili this time. Then in Arabic, French, Mandarin, Urdu, two dialects of Romulan (one much better than the other but she'll practice), and Andorian so terrible that an Andorian sitting on the other side of the transport looks over and crinkles his antenna in disapproval.

I love this entire premise, but this last paragraph really was so good to me.

[anodyna]

Thanks! I struggled with that paragraph for ages and ages, so when it finally came together it was like a major victory. Thank you for appreciating it!

[peri_peteia]

"Reading the dictionary is fun!" Nyota shouts after them

<333 IT IS FUN.

Oh Nyota. This is engrossing already!

ON TO THE NEXT PART.

[anodyna]

<333 IT IS FUN.

It totally is!

That part was drawn directly from personal experience, ha.

[rhi_anna]

[anodyna]

Thank you! I love thinking about Nyota; she's such an interesting character.

[rose_griffes]

Wow, what an intense, fascinating beginning. I enjoyed this so much.

[anodyna]

What a nice compliment, thank you! I hope you enjoy the rest as much... :)