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Apollonia looked at the screen. She’d been steeling herself up for this moment for hours now – after a sleep, and finally.
Finally, she felt it.
Her hands moved to the keyboard, and she began to type.
He That Squats on Yellow Sand died a hero.
Not just for his actions for the good of his ship – which he gave everything to protect – but to me personally. He saved my life when the time came, and did so selflessly, without hesitation.
Before that, he was my friend.
We knew each other only a brief time, but I have few friends and he was open and pleasant and liked to joke a lot. I never thought that a species so different from mine would be easier to talk to than my own kind, but he was simply that way, and however short a time it was, I was privileged to know him.
Please remember him as a credit to your people, to your family, to all of you.
I know that I will.
Sincerely,
Apollonia Nor
She finished the letter and re-read it, fixing a few typos and changing a couple words. But she resisted the urge to change it more substantially, hoping that perhaps the stream of consciousness that had created the words would impart her emotions better than anything carefully calculated.
When she felt satisfied, she selected the sender, using the routing address Jaya had given her, and pressed the send button.
FINIS
Other Terrestrial 
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