... Huh. That might be why I have such a difficult time picking up on, say, Spock's moments of warmth. I'm guessing most of his cues are visual ones? I'm told he's much... further from kolinaaru than he sounds.

Re Sonak the potential musician: I need to write the heck out of this! The trick will be not writing Tuvock in the role...


Timeheart is a Young Wizards reference. It's something equivalent, or closely equivalent, to heaven, but specific to each individual being who enters it. There's a precedent in YW canon for characters to dream about, or more accurately actually visit while asleep, recently-deceased loved ones in Timeheart.