Ad Astra :: Star Trek Fanfiction Archive ^{Beam me up, Scotty.}

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“Hey Hoshi,” Trip called as she jogged down the corridor. Hoshi turned and saw that Trip was holding up a padd. “Wait up.”

Hoshi waited until Trip was level with her. “Letter for you,” Trip said, giving her the padd. “It’s from Feezal.”

“Thanks for bringing this to me, Trip.” she said.

“Anytime,” they replied. “Hey, are you going to be at this week’s movie night? I’m showing Nosferatu in Venice.”

“I will.”

“Great to hear. Uh, bye then.”

“Bye.” She began to read the letter as she walked down the corridor. Feezal had been spending time with her third husband, Laxeem, and doing more gardening work. Whe ended by saying that she missed Hoshi and wished that she was able to see her. Hoshi finished the letter in about fifteen minutes, then read it again. She sighed a bit. They’d been dating for over a year now, and in that time they’d spent a grand total of four weeks with each other in person, only one of which was consecutive. They both knew that they wouldn’t be able to spend a lot of time with each other due to Hoshi being on a starship, but it was still difficult. Hoshi enjoyed being on a starship, but it did sometimes make maintaining relationships with people back on Earth difficult, especially because she couldn’t do a video call like on Earth, or even real time written messages. Letters were the only way to be able to communicate, and even that hadn’t been an option just a few years ago. Hoshi would forever be grateful for the people who had invented and built the technology which allowed for that.

Still, it was hard maintaining a long distance relationship. Many days Hoshi wished that she could talk to Feezal face to face, to hear her voice. But until then, letters would have to suffice.