"It would be rather lonely if you tried," Julian said, not at all hesitating to complete the aborted motion--he was rather free with physical affection, and it didn't bother him in the slightest.

Further doubts began to crowd his mind--why, too, would Worf be such a source of discomfort? Perhaps they simply didn't get along...

"It'll all get sorted out in the end. And if we're lucky, Q will be so kind as to make it all seem like some kind of dream, and we'll have nothing to say to Temporal Investigations at all."