Author's Note:
This is a collaborative effort with sherryE which sprouted from a lengthy dialogue regarding soulmates. The conversation evolved into the topic of FShep and Liara being soulmates and what it might have been like for them before they met each other- what their inner voices (their souls) might have whispered to the dark. In a way, this is an homage to *the knowing* and the faith to follow your inner voice.
Immersion
There are galaxies whose gravitational fields result in the disturbance of one another.
I move through time and space, through the stars, through the universe. I am a seeker, yet I hunt with urgency. A need fills me, drives me, like an insatiable hunger or unquenchable thirst. Something is missing. Something essential. I am incomplete. I seek to fill the emptiness.
An urgency to call out, to sing, to connect overwhelms me. I must draw what I have need of to me. Tempt it, pull it and fill the hollowness within. I crave to be heard.
I feel something, sense something. A knowing of another?
I sing. I sing loud. I sing to the other's wanting as something in me aches to be heard, longs to be touched. The drawing becomes stronger. I know I need this other to be whole. It is essential.
I sing louder again.
The other gets closer. I feel it surround me. It is majestic- strong, forceful, yet gentle and loving. It has a matching fire burning within, a need and wanting. I must draw it into me. Consume it, let it consume me. This will make me whole. But does it feel the same?
A minor interaction results in the disturbance of their celestial spiral arms.
I move through time and space, through the stars, through the universe. Solitary and discontent. I am a hunter. I am a seeker. An urgency to hunt drives me, sustains me, yet something is missing. Something essential. I am incomplete. I hunt to fill the emptiness.
What is that?
Something calls to me, tempts me as it desires to fill me. A song imbued with fierce hunger yet laced with sweet sadness. A need, strong and true, compels me to find this song as it pulls at me, draws me in. I ache when I hear its melody and long for it when it fades. I must find it. Reborn, I hunt again.
Urgency propels me. I need this song, this other. It is essential. I am not whole without it. This I know… But how do I know?
I hunt, I search. As I draw near, the song is clearer, sweeter. The pull grows stronger. My want, my desire, my need overwhelm.
The graceful song is found.
Beautiful and powerful like a symphony, the raw melody calls to me, haunts me. I must touch it. It is soft, yet strong. It is captivating, peaceful, loving, caring, tender, but has a wanting like fire. I must have it. I know it will complete me… But will it feel the same way?
A major interaction results in their collision and they merge.
"Hello, is anyone out there?"
"Dr. Liara T'Soni I presume?"