I was a bit of an outsider in my tribe, the child who wanted to be starfleet more than listen to his elders speak of the land and the spirits.

[ a complete opposite of the person he is now and rather telling, actually. he pauses for a moment longer to pat sand around the base of his section of the sandcastle before he continues. ]

I was once a very angry person. It often takes extraordinary circumstances to change people and even then... it's difficult to forget some of life's twists.

[ he's got a point to this, he promises. ]