The BLTS Archive - Chronicles of Shoreleave: Sicily by Aditi (aditi43@hotmail.com) --- Sixteenth in the Chronicles of Shoreleave Feedback: Yes please. Archive: ASCEM, others please ask. Disclaimer: I'm just hoping to provide some people with some enjoyable reading and am only hoping for some good feedback in return. (yes, I do think that sometimes Kirk and Spock might sometimes take leave away from each other for various reasons - as difficult as it may be! ;-). The letters will not necessarily be in sequential order according to stardate - there might be gaps but don't worry about them. I hope you all enjoy! --- Message encoded for: Spock, Commander, USS Enterprise Location: ShiKahr, Vulcan Received from: Kirk, James T., USS Enterprise Location: Erice, Italy, Terra Spock love, How are you? I've been pretty quiet and thoughtful the past few days. My aunt and uncle think that I have become apathetic. They also think that I am not doing enough to recover my luggage which is still lost. I called the baggage service again today about 10 times and kept getting a busy signal. I need to get it back ASAP because we are going to leave from Erice sooner than we thought. It turns out we have to pay 200 credits a day for me and my nephew to stay here - a very first class price for one room and pretty awful food. Several of the restaurants around here do feed us for free, but they have a different menu for us and for other customers who pay for their meal there. So Monday we are going to take off and travel around Sicily for a week before we have to leave. I am starting to feel a little more energetic and optimistic today. You know that inside I am very idealistic and romantic and my aunt and uncle were influencing my mood negatively with too much pragmatism. So that was bothering me for a while as well as not enough sleep and jetlag. We went to a gorgeous beach yesterday and I swam for a while in the beautiful blue water. I need to at least attempt to keep in shape so you can still recognize me when I return! Me, my uncle, and Victor - who is at the conference also and went to the beach with us - tried a Neroni (or something like that). This was a mixture of Vermouth, Rum , and gin. They brought it to us without ice and my uncle asked how can you have a cocktail without ice. The waiter - who had a couple of those or something else with a good kick - kept on saying that they ran out of ice. Finally, my uncle got him to go and get some from a place nearby and when the waiter came back he started placing the ice cubes one by one in our cups. I guess he was trying to check his aim under the influence. We stopped him after the first minute, otherwise the ice would have all melted by the time he was finished distributing it. Anyways, that Neroni was a pretty strong drink. I am pretty sure that after three of those I would ask for the location of the restroom...if I still could do even that. Anyway, Sicily is "tres belle" and it would be many times more beautiful if you were here. I think about you all the time and fight my uncle's attempts to apply too much pragmatism to my love. Hey, we are soul mates, so tingeing love with skepticism would only lessen the immense value of God's gift to us. Well, I have to go, love. I'll call you tonight (it'll be around 11 or 12 in ShiKahr). I'm loving you with all my heart and counting the days till I can set my eyes on you again...hold you again...touch you again...pleasure you again...and feel you near me body and soul. Bye,love. Your t'hyla, Jim --- The End