Jim smiled, openly self-deprecating though it was a sort of self-deprecation that wasn't at all sorry. "I'm blessed or cursed, whichever way you want to look at it, with an almost endless capacity for being impressed. Predicting something isn't always the same as experiencing it. If you asked me 'what would a ship like this be like, as a sentient being?', it's quite possible I'd have described something like her. But it doesn't touch that sense of discovery. I wouldn't want it to, either. My curiosity is valuable. It drives me. And there's a curiosity in her, a hunger, I can't help but be moved by."
It was a quality he valued not only in himself, but as had to be obvious, in his officers and lovers as well.
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Date: 2009-11-23 01:04 am (UTC)It was a quality he valued not only in himself, but as had to be obvious, in his officers and lovers as well.