Exhale
Friday, May 26, 2006
The Reavers were not the only horror on Miranda
CATEGORY: FICTION TIMES READ: 3343 RATING: 10.0 (PG) SERIES: FIREFLY
Standard disclaimer here. Serenity and Firefly are property of Joss Whedon. Comments are very welcome. This one is kind of dark, so be warned.
Inhale.
Exhale.
Inhale.
Exhale.
As long as I can still do this, there's hope. Seventeen pairs of lungs in this room. Seventeen people slowly breathing, the only thing any of us have done in days. Sixteen now. I haven't heard Miriam inhale for a while, at least a hundred breaths. Don't need to turn and look. After two weeks in this room I know where everyone is and what everybody's breathing sounds like. I think she might be dead. I should go over and check. I should call somebody. I should say something out loud, so someone will go and check on Miriam. I stay in my seat.
It should matter to me, that she's dead, the fourth one in the room to die. It really should. It just doesn't, not enough to make a difference. Nothing does. Maybe that's why I haven't stood up in so long. Maybe the others feel that way too. I wish someone would talk about it. I miss hearing people talk.
Inhale. Exhale. God, I'm thirsty. And hungry. There's food and water around the corner. That would be so good. I could stand up and go over and eat. I could bring some back for everybody, they'd like that. I can stand up. I know I can. Just one minute to get ready. Just one moment. Inhale. Exhale. I'll get up in a minute.
I remember the last time I wasn't here, when I was standing. I was home, with Bernie. Lovely, lively Bernadette. She came here the same time I did, but she did it of her own free will. No indentured colonist, her. She wanted to get out of the Core and start fresh on a new world. Miranda was perfect for her. A fresh place with all the civilization of the Alliance, a beacon of what every world on the Rim could be, according to the broadsheets. Miranda was named after the beautiful, perfect daughter of an exiled king and wizard, Bernie told me. Miranda would be a perfect place to have a life. I couldn't help falling for h
"I love my captain."
You can't take the sky from me
It was also very interesting the way you used the point of view of the guy in the window that scares Kaylee. And you actually have a female Reaver, which is all manners of scary/cool!
That was what I was repeating throughout the whole thing.
Sobering, powerful stuff here...
That was brilliantly awesome!
I just love the way you gave such a chlling and dark yet very interesting and moving story to the guy against the glass and to one of the newly made Reavers.
To be truthful, when I next watch Serenity (I do that at least twice a week) I'll look at that guy behind Kaylee behind the glass and see him differently.
Now he's Mickey.
Luc.
Giving background to the figure that scares Kaylee during the initial investigation of the Mirandan city really drives home the fact that 30 million people with lives and families and hopes and dreams were either killed or driven mad by science's attempt to make the "better."
BEB
Morwen
And with Lucas Harper - that scene will mean more thinking about this story and the moments that it reflects.
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