Rael stands astonished, doubting his sight...
"My...assumption was aromanticism and asexuality, yet self-assessment indicates that I love you in every sense of the word."
"Not every sense, Spock. Just yours. Just what you feel for me."
"Sir?"
"You don't have to...admit anything, or define yourself. New words, old ones... You can just...be."
"As you are?"
"As I am is having different and the same feelings of love for everything that moves and breathes and is even a little bit the same as or different from me. So you can't be as I am, Spock. You can only be you. And I love you."