I found these one-word prompts here: the prompt writer (dot com) /one-word-prompts /

this is the fifth one I did.

[Kirk, from the episode Obsession]

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Driven - TOS

He knows he's obsessed. He knows he is not to blame, and yet...

The past he'd thought he'd buried, but never laid to rest, comes to him now, the eerily silent ship, bodies...

If he kills the thing, the vampire, he will be avenging them all...

It smells like honey.

He must kill it, he must...

He knows it's not right, he knows it's reckless, he knows people are dying every minute he delays to finish this vendetta, and yet he can't care. That is what scares him the most. He can't care, about anything; he can't live, until that thing is dead.

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