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Rating: PG-13

Pairings: River/Jayne, Mal/Inara, a tad of Simon/Kaylee

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Voices And Visions

By

Lattelady6

Ch 8/12 - In Dreams

Serenity was due to arrive on Calderon’s third moon in fifteen hours twenty-two minutes and fifty seconds. It would be early morning, planet time and mid-morning, ship time. They had an additional three hours until the scheduled meet that Badger had lined up. River double-checked the coordinates and did another search on the Cortex to be sure nothing new had been posted about their destination.

“Poor planetoid,” she muttered. “They didn’t care enough about you to give you a proper name. All you received was a numerical designation.” She reread the scant information available. Officially they were heading toward All-31685-Cald-3. This told her it was claimed by the Alliance; it had been the 31685th astral body identified since leaving Earth-That-Was; but most importantly to her, as a pilot, it indicated that, she needed to use the navigational beacons for Calderon and then the ship’s charting computer to home in on the moon. She knew Wash had upgraded the system with some special programs of his own making, so that they could fly undetected past the planet’s spatial identification markers, pick up the information they need and go on their merry, unless it had been specifically set to alert the authorities to their presence.

River screwed up her face and looked into the Black. “Hmmm if I used the space cartographer’s method, what would my name be? Would I be Ser-9-Simon-1?” She shook her head because that didn’t work. There were only seven of them left on Serenity, and she was sure that Kaylee now occupied the number one orbital position in Simon’s life. River thought it was a good thing and was happy for him and h