Posted by Ensign Kalani Kāne (Science Officer) in Elizabeth Alindor tours the Saracen

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Jarred Alindor (Chief Engineer) in Elizabeth Alindor tours the Saracen

Posted by Ensign Kalani Kāne (Science Officer) in Elizabeth Alindor tours the Saracen
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Alindor’s quarters
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Kalani stretched her shoulder’s one more time working out a few of the kinks still there. She was not unaccustomed to sleeping on hard surfaces. In the field, there were rarely beds or cots yet they were on a perfectly good starship so the hard metal floors even covered by several blankets were not s soft as a bed. She smiled as Jarred came around from behind her setting another cup of coffee down along with a pile of scrambled eggs, waffles, and dish of peaches. Kalani rarely ate anything for breakfast and this combination had to be a favorite of Elizabeth by the way she was eating without complaint. What it wasn’t doing was shutting Elizabeth up. Kalani was a talker but she and Jarred had an unspoken rule about mornings. It was not talking before each of them had a cup and no decisions were made until Kalani was solidly on her second cup. This morning however, Kalani was struggling to process the words coming out of Elizabeth’s mouth.

“Thanks, baby,” Kalani said raising the cup to her lips as Jarred took a seat at the table with them.

“And my friend Jennifer’s brother said that on a starship you can’t open any windows in your house or you get sucked out and die,” Elizabeth said with a serious face as if she were imparting a great source of knowledge to the adults at the table. “I fed dat my dadhe half speful winno’s on his sip fo I won’t eye,” she added while eating a mouthful of eggs. There was no fear in her words. Just a plain matter of fact tone indicating Jennifer had to clearly be wrong.

“You know the rule pumpkin, swallow before talking.” Jarred said as he took a sip of his coffee before coming sitting down, leaning in to give Kalani a kiss and then back to Elizabeth where he kissed the top of her head as he sat down to the plate at his side of the table. So far Jarred had been running on fumes but this felt good all the same. He couldn’t help but smile at the pair as he blinked a few times slowly. It was clear sleep had been dragging on his face a bit.

Kalani glanced at Jarred wondering how well he was fairing this morning as a full-time dad. She knew it was not his first time alone with his daughter but the three of them had not gone to bed before 2100 hours last night and Elizabeth was up at 0600 hours. She and Jarred had gotten up an hour earlier to get ready for the day or was what the two of them planned to call it if Elizabeth woke up during this time. While the 0500 revelry was as active as any PT session but a thousand times more enjoyable, Kalani was already feeling the need for a mid-morning nap. Looking at Jarred, Kalani couldn’t tell really if he was dragging or not yet. TO be fair he was the one running around the quarters getting shoes and clothes and breakfast as Kalani moved at a slightly slower pace. Maybe he was fine or maybe he was just on auto-pilot and just fine on five hours broken sleep. He was good with the kiddo. It didn’t surprise her as much as it did. Jarred was a nice guy. As an engineer, he had oodles of patience that most people overlooked. This was evident to Kalani when she saw people come to the chief complaining something was broke and miming out the problem rather than use words. Jarred never broke his cool with them so of course he wouldn’t with his own kid. The difference was he couldn’t send the irrate lieutenant to his room when he pouted over a broken piece of tech. Only time would tell how far his patience would stretch with a five-year-old.

Taking Kalani’s hand as he placed his on top, he squeezed gently before inhaling deeply. He was as tired as her but he knew he had to go through this. It was what was needed of him to make this work with Elizabeth.

Looking at the clock Elizabeth dropped her fork and ran to the door grabbing an exhausted Ralph off the couch like a limp rag toy under one arm. “It’s zero eight o’clock,” she said happily. “You said last night at zero eight o’clock, we get to see the ship. It’s zero eight o’clock, now right so can we go? Can we go?,” she practically bounced at the door. Ralph let out a small whining sound as his bottom half swayed to her jumping but his neck and front paws were held firmly in place by the stockade that was Elizabeth’s arm.

“Little one, be careful with our little guy there. I think you forget how tiny he is.” Jarred said, he had to admit Ralph was taking his time as a small child’s new pet rather well. Still he could bite her if he got to angry at her playfulness. “Remember Lucy’s dog? He tried to bite Papa cause Papa wouldn’t let him have his food one day… the Ralph is still just a dog in many ways even if he is a fox, he has a limit.

“Not Ralph. I loves me bunches and bunches,” she said raising the tiny furry head to her lips as she kissed it. “And Aunt Lucy’s dog is a hobo. He farted and burped and was just a…a....hobo,” Elizabeth rolled her eyes in disgust. “Uncle Peter called him a hobo all the time. Ralph is fancy dog. Besides he likes to come with me. Miss Lani said so last night.”

Kalani got a small grin on her face. “Yes he does,” she winked at Ralph although if Elizabeth thought it was towards her that didn’t hurt anything either. This was good for Ralph. The fox was a baby too and needed to get used to small kiddos. One day Kalani wanted kids and she had seen too many times about how older pets were dorks to children. Ralph needed to learn the ropes fast and at least right now Jarred was playing bad cop with reminding Elizabeth about rules and such. This left the role of good cop wide open and Kalani was just fine filling the role. Better to be the fun one than the one who had to follow through with rules.

Dad…dad…little....help…here Ralph said looking at Jarred from across the room. This little Alindor was a lot of fun and always smelled like yummy treats but she was rather loud and at times moved faster than he did when playing ball.

Feeling Ralph squirm Elizabeth moved towards the door and grabbed her backpack. Opening the top she dumped out the contents with one hand and then worked hard to stuff Ralph in the opening with the other. “There we go Ralphie. Now you can ride with us. I will take care of you. Go to sleep and I will set you free later,” she said softly kissing his head and closing the top.

Kalani sighed with a smile. Ralph was used to backpacks but not the unceremonious stuffing and drawstringing ritual he was being subjected to by Elizabeth. The small paw reaching out of the tiny hole at the top made Kalani laugh out loud.

“Looks like she is ready and has a hostage friend,” Kalani said leaning back stretching in the chair.

“You can still come if you want, I am sure you don’t need to be at the meeting…” Jarred said as he looked at her, the look said volumes. He was a bit nervous, but part of him also knew he needed to do this on his own. She was his daughter and as much as he loved Kalani she wasn’t his wife, not yet at least.

Kalani opened her mouth and closed it after a few seconds. She wasn’t sure how to reply to Jarred. Of course she wanted to spend time with them but she also knew she was not Elizabeth’s mother and had to tread a careful line.

“Dahhhh deeeeee let’s go,” Elizabeth said impatiently bouncing back and forth on each foot at the door as Ralph let out a series of small yips and bark. “Ralph says he is ready too!”

“Baby I would love to come with you but maybe the peanut wants a bit of Daddy-daughter time. What if I give you a twenty minute head start? Maybe you take her to the engine room and I will get my lab up and ready for guests. I do have to check on the galactic zoo. She might enjoy hanging out there a bit and then I can have all my work done so I can spend the rest of the day with you....or....part…or…whatever you felt was okay,” Kalani started to stumble over her words. She had assumed that they would spend the day together like they always did when they were off. It was not until this second had Kalani thought that maybe Jarred’s comment about giving it a few days might include more than just nights.

Kalani Kane Ensign

“Okay okay.. I am on my way little one.” he said as he leaned in kissing Kalani goodbye before he took his daughter’s hand as he began to head out the door.

Alindor, CE

Elizabeth half pulled Jarred out of the room by his hand heading to the nearest turbo lift. “I want to go to the bridge. What floor do I tell it to take us too,” she said excitedly bouncing back and forth.

“Little one, I promise we will go when I get clearance for you. For now, I wanted to take you to where I work. I am not at the bridge often anyway.” he said, knowing he might want to at least inform Dante of her before barging in.

“Oh,” Elizabeth tried to hide her slight disappointment. Immediately however it was replaced with a new destination. “Can we go to your office,” she asked jumping slightly and tugging on Jarred’s hand as she bounced up and down. A pathetic whine came out of the back pack again as Ralph pointed out his disdain for being tossed around like a sack of potatoes.

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SARACEN ENGINE ROOM

“Whoa,” Elizabeth said as the pneumatic doors swished open to the large room dominated by soft hum of the warp core. She did not step forward and enter but stood there taking it all in. The room was far busier than normal with the shift change over from graveyard to day. People milled about updating the crew that was taking over the shift while shift supervisors tended to any issues that had arisen. All the bouncy excitement seemed to fade from Elizabeth. It was replaced with more of an awe struck quiet stare. Elizabeth was not shy by nature but this was a lot of strangers. “This is your office,” she said in a quiet voice with wide eyes. The room was a lot larger than Elizabeth expected.

“No no no… this is the engine room love. This is the heart of the ship, it creates the energy and lifeblood for everything we have. Without this we can’t fly, fight, have lights, make your yummy coconut cookies you love. This is what keeps us running.” Jarred said, smiling as he thought about it. He did love the ship, and it showed as he talked.

“Lt. Commander Alindor,” a large Orion yelled out in a deep voice seeing the chief at the door. “I am glad your here boss. The Photonic Resonance Dampener is playing up again. We have adjusted the Secondary Field Modulator to try and compensate but it only corrected the variance by .0064%.”

Elizabeth slid closer to Jarred and held his hand a bit tighter moving right next to his leg and possibly slightly behind it. It was not that the green man was being mean to her daddy but he did sound rather angry. He sounded very angry.

“We can’t get the Photonic Resonator working until we can get the Dampener variance to .0080% and I have tried everything.” Finishing the sentence the Orion extended the PaDD towards Alindor.

Lt. Kalani Kane

“Ensign have you meet my daughter? You have a little girl right? Samara if I recall?” he asked the brutish man as he looked over the PaDD.

“Your daughter? Metaphorically or biologically,” he said raising an eyebrow. His tone was jovial if you knew the man but if you did not it carried the deep gravely baritone that matched his size and exterior serious demeanor.

“Samara looks like she is about her age. We should get them together. Oh and get yourself on the babysitting roster. The waiting list is long but so is having them every night until they are 18. See Becca Tripton to get your name on the list. What’s your name kid,” he asked in a more friendly tone.

Elizabeth’s eyes were wide but she knew there was nothing to be scared of right now. “Elizabeth but my dad calls me Lizzie,” she said still holding Jarred’s hand tightly forcing Jarred to work the PaDD one-handed and propping it on his chest to stabilize it so he could work.

“The inverse the field, make sure you then increase power by increments of 2.9% and once you hit the threshold reset. That should give you the results… remember this ship is old and wants to play you for a fool. You have to be smarter than her, she’s seen a lot but she can bend.” Jarred said as he slapped him on the back.

“If that doesn’t work you can always try and replacing the fulkner manifold, it might be causing that variance as well.”

Alindor, CE

Elizabeth watched as the large Orion walked off and Jarred led her to his office. It was a large elongated T-shaped room with a huge window that faced main engineering so he could see everything going on while he was in the office. Entering the room you would see to your immediate right a seating area containing a couch, coffee table and a picture on the wall. The couch was the standard issue dark red. The coffee table was more artistic with a glass top and metal maze styled legs. The picture was a series of five rectangles showing an image that went from smallest to largest in the middle and then cascading from the largest in the center to the smallest on the end. The image on the art was of a man dressed in red and black holding an ancient projectile weapon which was firing bullets. There was a door to your immediate left that held a small restroom shared between the engineering chief and his duty officers. Entering the room further you would see a large dark wood desk that dominated the space behind the sitting area. Two chairs faced it for people to sit in when they were speaking with the chief.

On the far left-hand wall was a series of shelves with various knickknacks from all the places Jarred had been. The only thing Elizabeth recognized on the shelves was a tall skinny trophy with a little gold man that looked like he was running on the top of it. A low row of cabinets were under the shelves probably holding various things he needed for the office. In the back right-hand corner of the room was a filing cabinet with a peace lily sitting on top. The green and white of the plant was in stark contrast to the dark grays, black, and red color scheme of the office. Across from the filing cabinet was a personal replicator embedded into the wall.

Elizabeth let go of Jarred’s hand once she was out of the hustle and bustle of the busy engineering room. She was not typically shy but everything was new and hectic. His office, however, was exciting. “Is this your office,” she said looking around with a smile. “Can I explore it?”

“Of course little one, don’t pull anything off the shelves though. Some of the things are sharp pumpkin.” he said, thinking that he may need to child proof some of the stuff he had around the office now that he thought of it.

“Yo chief,” a chipper voice yelled from the door behind Jarred. “I thought you were on vaycay. Before you go can I show you something.” Not waiting for a reply he moved towards Alindor.

“Uhh, yes what is it then?” Jarred asked, he didn’t really want to take the time but he begrudgingly knew he should at least listen.

“Can I go look at your desk,” Elizabeth tugged at Jarred’s shirt.

“Yes little one that’s fine.” he said, bringing his attention back to the Ensign.

The young ensign raised an eyebrow noticing the mini person also in the room. Quickly he recovered to ask his question. “So I need your approval to install a second Starboard Bioneural Replication Matrix on decks 4-12. I went to Harper and he won’t sign off without checking with Platt and Platt says everything has to go through you,” he droned on.

“No, I told them twice already that is going to overload decks 1-3 and I am not going to do that for a minor bit of convince. So tell them to bugger off I am not going to change my mind.”

Moving to the back of the room, Elizabeth took a good look at everything. Behind the desk and off to the right was a large sword held in place by a bright red fabric panel. The sword might be recognized as a Samari one if you knew ancient Japanese weapons. Elizabeth rose on her toes to look at the bottom on it. A small figure that looked just like the one from the picture was lounging on his side with his head propped on his arm. Elizabeth couldn’t see his face behind the black and red mask but she knew the man had to be smiling. Glancing at her Dad still talking to the man in the other room she walked behind the desk looking at a couple of pictures hanging on the wall.

In one picture was her whole family: Nana, Aunt Lucy, Uncle Peter, and her daddy. Her Grandpa was also in it but only part of his eye and one ear. It was obvious to Elizabeth that somehow her daddy hadn’t gotten a frame large enough to show everyone’s face so they had folded the picture almost cutting her PaPa out. The picture next to it was of Kalani and her Daddy. Elizabeth looked at the image of him and Kalani then back at her dad. “Daddy did you find Kalani in the wild like Tarzan found Jane,” she yelled out not caring if her dad was done talking to the man that had arrived in the room. While the image with her and Jarred was perfect and taken professionally the image with Kalani was more of a selfie shot. Both Jarred and Kalani had mud up to their knees and his shirt was missing one sleeve. Kalani’s hair was arranged in what Nana called the rat’s nest. Both of them seemed happy though. Not seeing any pictures of her and her Daddy, Elizabeth sat down at her Dad’s desk and started to open the drawers. Her picture had to be somewhere. She and her Daddy took all kinds of pictures which Nana hung around the house so it only made sense he had to have one in his office. Uncle Peter had her on his desk as did Aunt Lucy. It had to be somewhere. Elizabeth just had to find it. After rooting past several PaDD’s and a bunch of loose items Elizabeth found something that made her eyes grow large. Pulling the image out of the drawer she sat back and stared at it. It was an image of her Daddy and a blonde half-Denobulan woman. She stared so hard at the picture everything else disappeared around her.

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Jarred came into the office, pausing as he saw his daughter frozen in place. He wasn’t certain at first what this might have been, then the eyes hit the flowers as he made the connection of what she was staring at. “Pumpkin?” he said softly as he came closer to her. He wanted to give her a chance to soak things in but he also needed to be there for her. Jarred didn’t have much of anything left of Lilly, but his ex wife and him in that photo was a sole remnant of his past.

Alindor, CE

“Why is mommy in your desk,” she asked with a perplexed expression on her face. Elizabeth had no reason to think the woman in the picture was anyone but her mom. Denoblians were not uncommon in the Federation but Elizabeth had only met one so far in her life. She was also old enough to know that what the woman was wearing in the picture was a wedding dress. Elizabeth studied the image hard. If she had laser vision, her stare would have seared two burn marks into it. She had not ever seen a picture of her mom before this. Her Nana did not have any and her Daddy never mentioned her mom. Since Elizabeth knew she had died it made sense. Slowly she bit her lip and set the picture up on the table still staring at it. Or maybe her mom hadn’t died. Until now Elizabeth never thought about where her mom actually was. It just made sense that her mom was dead if she had not seen her. There were long periods of time when Elizabeth did not physically see her Daddy but he was always just a comm call away and he came to visit them on the moon every chance he got. If her Daddy could do this then why couldn’t her mom if she was alive. “Mommy is so beautiful. I have her eyes. They are purple like mine. Was I in her tummy in here? Can we go visit her mommy and daddy? Are they alive or dead like mommy is? Can I go see them,” Elizabeth’s questions came faster and faster as so many thoughts poured into the little girl’s brain? “Where do they live? Do I have cousins? Can we visit them on vacation?” The little girl wore the expression of happy eagerness that all kids possessed when their daydream moved faster than logical thoughts. “I didn’t see any pictures of mommy up at home. Can we take this and put it right above the TV? Do you have more? Can I have one for my bed?” The questions did not stop but strangely enough, Elizabeth did not seem sad at all about finding the picture. In fact, she seemed overly happy if any emotion was to describe the little girl’s mood.

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The picture itself was an odd one Jarred knew, it was the last photo of him and Lilly ever taking. The next day she vanished, the only news of her he had after that was that he was a father. Still as he stood there, feel pale and cold he let himself focus in the moment. He wasn’t sure where she got this impression that his ex wife died, while he never mentioned anything about her he didn’t think she would have jumped to that conclusion. He knew his father had made some comments when Lizzie was younger, but as she got older talks of Jarred jumping into bed with the first pretty half blonde alien he could find stopped over time.

None of his family was at the wedding, only Lilly’s father was there. Jarred had never reached out to the Admiral, he was always a cold man who never thought Jarred was good enough. He was surprised the Admiral and the Colonel never got together if he was honest. Still, Admiral Gray had never even been informed of Elizabeth. Jarred had wanted so little to do with that side he never even reached out to the man. Some might consider that cruel, the denial of him knowing he has a grandchild. Though if Jarred was honest he wasn’t even certain he didn’t know, his orders sent Lilly away and whether she died after giving birth or not the man never gave him details.

Feeling himself come back to the moment Jarred’s eyes focused back on his daughter. “Who....” Jarred felt himself get parched as he began to speak as he straighten up. “What made you think your mother died little one?” he said as he walked over to her, he could see the picture in her little hands as she sat in that chair. Even with her only being 1/4th Denoublean she still had those wide eyes that seemed to be a common trait. As he got closer he lifted her off the chair as he sat down, letting her nestle down in his lap as he pulled up so they could place the picture on his desk.

Alindor, CE

“Well,” Elizabeth wiggled all over his lap until she found the perfect spot on his lap that had her practically leaning back on Jarred’s chest like it was a lounge chair. Because he was so much taller than Elizabeth, this caused her to sit so that her feet stuck straight out in a pike position. Tapping her heels together as she talked Elizabeth explained the answer to his question. “She never has come to visit me or sent a present or called,” Elizabeth stated matter of factly. “You might not be there every day when I wake up but you have a very ‘portant job. PaPa told me that whenever I asked why you couldn’t be there to make me breakfast or see me play soccer. He said that you were working so hard to be the best daddy ever. PaPa explains things so that I always understand it. He is a good PaPa. He told me that sometimes Mommies and Daddies had to work far away from their kids because there are bad things in space and sometimes mommies and daddies had to protect us from things we don’t always know about. So I started thinking,” Elizabeth paused here and craned her head so that she could look up at Jarred for a second. “Can we get ice cream later?”

Jarred was a little taken aback as she spoke. Nothing she said made much sense about what his father said about him. He never heard his father ever talk about him in this way. He began to think about what to say when it sunk in what she said at the end as he looked at her with a tilted head and the smallest of smiles. “Ice cream? It’s a little early pumpkin we’ve only been up a few hours.” he said as he took a breath before leaning in and kissing the top of her head.

“So, what else do you know?” he asked her, he wasn’t sure what he wanted to say in this moment. Luckily she seemed more than willing to give him time to think as her mouth was going a mile a minute as her little brain kept churning.

Turning back around Elizabeth looked at the picture. “So one day I started thinking about mommy after we hung up at bedtime. One of those bad things musta happened to her because she was in Starfleet. That is why she never comes to see me. You always tell me that if I ever needed you that you would be on the first shuttle to see me. If you would do that why wouldn’t she,” she said in a confident tone, “so she had to have died. You would never leave me or stop seeing me....would you daddy?” Her tone was still confident but there was a hint of a question to it like she needed to hear the words Elizabeth knew in her heart.

Jarred’s eyes softened as he looked down, letting those words hang in the air. He could tell she wasn’t done, and felt best to let her continue.

“And Mommy’s just don’t leave their kids. I would have to have done something really really bad for her to leave and never want to see me again.” Elizabeth’s tone was almost silly in her response. As if she had said something so absurd Jarred should be laughing. .”I asked Nana that question once. I asked her if I had ever done anything bad to make mommy go away and do you know what she said to me?”

“What did Nana say baby girl?” he said, his tone chipper and soft as he couldn’t help but feel a smile forming on his lips.

“She said I was a great kid. So great that my Daddy would get up in the middle of the night to tuck me in or stay up way past his bedtime just to hear about my day because I am so awesome that everyone wants to spend time with me. You....Aunt Lucy....Uncle Peter, ” Elizabeth let the words hang a bit. She had been talking for so long she had forgotten what her Daddy had asked but she just kept talking. It was nice not having to share her daddy. He was listening to everything she said and Elizabeth loved the attention. Now it was time though to show her Daddy that she was his big strong tough girl. She was excited to show him how smart she was too.

“I know why you don’t talk about mommy, Daddy. It’s because it makes you sad because you miss her so much.” This was when Elizabeth stopped staring at the picture on the desk as she talked. Wiggling in the chair Elizabeth popped up to her knees and spun on his lap so that she could look at Jarred “You can tell me about mommy if you want. If won’t make me sad. I know that mommy is in heaven watching me. Since I never met her I don’t really miss her and when I do miss her I have you instead right,” she leaned against his body. Pressing her nose to his she rubbed it back and forth giving him an eskimo kiss.

As she broke Jarred kissed the tip of her nose, he felt a drop in his stomach though. He had no clue where to go with this, it wasn’t a topic he had ever thought of. Somehow he thought his parents or siblings had said something. Anything, how did this never come up till now?

“Can we go get that ice cream now?”

Elizabeth Alindor.

“Little one… no… not… no yes you’re right ice cream.” Jarred said, this was all more stalling. If he needed to shatter his daughters image of her mom he didn’t want to do it harshly. Ice cream and cuddles could go a long way. Sitting her down he walked over to his replicator, ordering up two bowls of cherry garcia ice cream as he walked into the sitting area with the tables. Sitting both bowels down he looked back as he heard the small piter pater of foot steps behind him.

“Now, don’t tell Nana or Papa we did this okay? Just between us. Don’t think you get ice cream every morning either little one.” he said as he got comfy on the couch, placing both bowels next to him on the cushion as he lifted her up. Letting her find that perfect spot once more in his arms he handed her bowl and then grabbed his before he placed his feet up on the table.

“Does Papa still only eat that horrid pistachio ice cream?” he asked her, taking a bite from the ice cream, spoon turned up so down as he let it melt over his tongue. Lizzie always followed suit, eating just like her daddy.

Small moments based of what felt like an eternity, but as bowls got closer to being empty Jarred knew he needed to talk more about Lilly. “Okay little one, your mom… she was tough. Firecracker if I ever meet one. One day though, after we got married she had to leave. I didn’t know why, Starfleet needed her and you became dropped in my feet small and tiny. Your mom, I don’t know where she is… but I doubt she ever stopped thinking of you. Sometimes adults… we don’t always make rational choices. It doesn’t mean we don’t love someone, but life has a way of making choices for you. It’s in many ways why I made the choice to have you move in with me little one. Mommy maybe out there, fighting… or whatever she is doing.” Jarred said, the last part feeling choked in his throat. He was softening this far more than truth would allow, she was five and more than this would shatter her tiny world.

“But… whatever she is doing I doubt she forgot, she gave birth to you how can she forget? That doesn’t mean though we can’t be more of a family, you here with me. After all those years apart love, calls and quick visits I don’t want to see you grow up from afar anymore. I want to be there for everything you have big and small. So even if Mommy isn’t here and off doing whatever she is, I will never not be here. Okay baby girl?” he said softly, looking at her wide eyes hoping beyond hope this all made sense to his precious angel.

Alindor, CE