Dedication

for mazaher, lina, and frangar
for black jack, clash, gabby, and taz
for elsa, flo, beijing and fuji
for baikal, stolby, ruby, jazz
for showing me things I'd forgotten
or never had, or never knew
for showing me the way to speaking
languages to live anew

and thanks to my beta, secret chord, who took on the challenge
looked over the work, added line breaks, made it a better piece


A few notes

Everything is written in verse. There are monologues. Punctuation, for reasons unknown, is extremely inconsistent. So is the rhyme scheme.

I write for myself. Though I hope some parts will give pleasure to the reader, this is not the reason I write.

There is lots of grief.

I consider K/S to be the heart of what I write. That being said, this work does not deal primarily with their relationship- K/S centers it, but is not the main subject of it. If you are looking for a pure K/S fic, this will probably disappoint.


Logistics

Warnings as well as additional notes concerning source material/inspiration are located at the end of each section. As this fic mentions/deals with subjects such as rape, suicide, slavery, incest, cannibalism, and torture, please read the warnings if you believe you may be triggered by the material.

Adaptation of The Odyssey is based on the English translation by Richmond Lattimore. Spellings of names and some lines (cited without quotation marks) have been used as well.

Klingon words were mostly culled from the internet, primarily , .com, /English-to-Klingon-Dictionary, and . Klingon names were completely made up. Any mistakes in tlhIngan Hol are mine- I did not learn the language.

Story takes place after Star Trek Into Darkness. I like Christine Chapel so I put her back on the ship, author's prerogative.

j. Anon