Following months of demanding Starfleet service, S’rrel and Victor are granted a rare thirty-day shore leave on Colludia II, a world where enormous tides, peaceful oceans, ancient traditions, and modern Federation ideals create the perfect backdrop for a relationship no longer hidden from those closest to them.

Rather than a mission of danger, this becomes a mission of healing, discovery, and deciding what their future together might become.

(Story carried over to Shared Serenity: A Shore Leave Convergence)