The sudden ringing of the telephone often makes people feel sensitive, sometimes even startling them.
After staring at the phone for a couple of seconds, Lynch picked it up.
Before answering the call, he had just picked up a pen, intending to write something. Now, there's a blot of ink on the letter paper in front of him, but no other words.
"It's me..."
"I'm Nell...," Lynch's father's voice appeared over the phone, followed by a brief silence before the voice resumed, "If you have time, you'd best return to the Federation once. Your mother and I are planning to divorce."
For Lynch, the arrival of this day was not unexpected; Nell and Serra's marriage had reached its endpoint the moment Lynch came into this world.
For many people of ordinary status, marriage is not a choice of love but a choice made by society.
This is also the problem that most people have to face: "The other half of my marriage is not the person I love the most, but the one I can't live without."
