The Romulan opera that is mentioned in the novel, "I Lata Arham Urri, E'Lev." [To Death I Go, My Love], is the fictional story of the young Aev Ralaa, a Romulan soldier who leaves his lover to go fight in the Romulan-Vulcan War. Throughout the opera Aev knows death will finally catch him "under the raptor's wing." and take him away forever. Towards the end of the opera Aev is given a mission, that is clearly a suicide mission, he accepts it and is killed a Vulcan soldier. But the young Vulcan soldier makes the mistake of mind melding of him, in order to understand what motivated Aev. The Vulcan is then moved by emotion to find Aev's love, Sienae, and tell her of Aev's passion for her. The ending of the opera has the Vulcan moved by emotion to mind meld with another so that Aev's love for Sienae will never die but continue through all the ages of galaxy.