She paused, hearing the crowd's voice whisper, trying to judge whether it was accepting her words, and her.

She remembered all the many times she'd heard a voice whisper in her mind.

"Come on, read my future for me," a taped voice whispers.

"Then I heard my mother's voice whisper to me, 'You have to do it.' "

"He's gone up," he heard a young voice whisper.

The knocking came a third time, and he heard a woman's voice whisper, 'Felix.'

It was comforting to hear the little mechanical voice whisper to him, like a remote echo from home.

Tilting down to him, she heard his beautiful voice whisper, "Don't go, stay with me my angel.

Then, from in the dark machine room behind them, they heard Spock's voice whisper, "Captain?"

"Trout," an inner voice whispers, as it does each year when warm weather comes.