Not my ‘Verse, just visiting. No coin changing hands.

Scene 1:

(Copia. Farm house. Kaylee, Simon, Jayne exiting onto front porch.)

JAYNE: Now that’s just unsettlin’.

KAYLEE: I think it’s beautiful.

SIMON: It’s a perfectly normal function in mammals.

JAYNE: Ordinar’ly I might agree, ain’t the first time I seen it. But that was Zoe.

KAYLEE: That makes it even prettier.

JAYNE: Wa. Gonna be a long time ‘fore I close my eyes without seein’ that.

SIMON: Hey pretty mammal, can I try that?

KAYLEE: How romantic of you. Race you to the room!

MAL: (coming out and nearly being run over) Where’s the fire?

JAYNE: Kaylee’s britches, where else?

MAL: Somebody’s cranky. Kasmir’s sisters turn you down?

JAYNE: Ain’t sayin’.

MAL: All seven plus the twelve cousins then? Smooth. I believe that’s a new record for you Jayne.

JAYNE: Gai si . Glad they’re all gone though.

MAL: Shoulda waited till one had left the room ‘fore tryin’ for the next one.

JAYNE: Funny. See me laughin’?

MAL: Don’t fret none. We’ll get you to a whore house again sooner or later.

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Scene 2:

(Farm house parlor, heads bowed over a map on coffee table.)

JAZ: There’s an old observation outpost on Cornu near the summit. The view is spectacular. It’s a bit out of the way. I was hoping Simon and Kaylee could scout out the best place down on the little lake to put up a cabin. There’s a big system of lakes elsewhere I could use an opinion on some day. Anybody who wants to go have a look round is welcome to it. I was warning Mal about the eccentricities of the weather here.

MAL: Sky clouds in she’ll be whistlin’ up a screamer. Got a right banshee wind comes through betimes.

ZOE: That’s why the tuned wind chimes?

MAL: They shift modes, you shift gear. Don’t wait for second guesses ‘cause you won’t get one.

KAYLEE: How bad is it?

MAL: Good blow gets going you’ll be whipped right out’n your clothes.

SIMON: Sounds like fun.

MAL: You hear the wind change pitch you get to cover, dong ma? No