It was illogical to feel such joy after his home world had been obliterated.
Yet, in that icy cavern, his own personal frozen hell, Spock could not deny the fact that his entire being leapt at the sight of his Captain. His Kirk,
"Jim…" he exhaled as the young Captain stared at him in confusion. Overwhelmed for the first time in many a decades by what he had extinguished with the life of his Captain Spock could only stare.
"Who are you?" his Jim asked
Spock could never convey all that he was, all that they were together, all that Jim had made him in a single answer but, still he replied.
"I am and will for ever be your friend"