Yes, Season Three is still coming along, it's just doing so slowly. With everything goin' on in my life right now, this is the best I can manage.

If you recall, there's going to be a lot more going on this season than both of the other two combined, so these first few are going to hold some seemingly meaningless bits and pieces of development, but trust me, in the end, they'll all make sense.

Also, starting this season, I'm using scroll-over definitions for Mandarin phrases, so if you want to know what they're saying when they spout off, just place your mouse over it and it'll tell you.

Finally, I have finally discarded my last restriction on my own writing, and doing so has changed the rating of this story. The story is now rated for adult language, especially right at the end. I just felt I couldn't do justice to Anne's mindset at that particular moment without relying on several choice, florid selections of vocabulary. Basically, what I'm saying is: Legacy is no longer family friendly.

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Man, I love where this season's going to go...

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Serenity and their like are property of Joss, all the rest is mine, gorramit!

Feedback is appreciated.

Seven Strangers

There was a long moment, as he stared at a pair of blue-green eyes staring up at him, where he couldn't say anything. Then, after that particular moment, there was another one, where he wasn't sure what he was supposed to say. She stared back up, with rather similar a look on her own features. He glanced around the room he was standing in, a wide, open area completely constructed of metal, and none of it familiar in the slightest. He looked down to the woman he was cradling.

"Are you alright?" he asked. She blinked up at him, her face pulling slowly into a rictus of pain.

"My head hurts," she said, her voice hoarse, as if she'd screamed too much fairly recently. She tried to rise out of his arms, but was caught short, catching her forhead in a clawing hand as she grunted in pain and dropped back down.

"What's wrong?" he asked. One blu