I am writing this on paper, so it won’t be erased by the Ramurans. Chakotay fell in love with someone else. No mind control this time, just hormones.

I shouldn’t be snide. He genuinely loved Kellin, and I was gracious about it.

He had every right to love her. He’s free. I’ve done my best to keep him at arm’s length for months. This might even have been the perfect solution: he’d be happy, and I’d be… out of limbo.

But I always believed that somehow, we would wind up together.

On second thought, there’s no point in remembering this.