Mal got done prepping the three suits and walked past Jayne and Zoe to get to the engine room. They only grunted in greeting and continued strapping down equipment. It wasn't the sort of thing Mal would normally ask them to do, but he had a strange feeling about this prospective job. While it wasn't the sort of feeling he would ever give into, he had the feeling he was walking into something angry. An emissary of Red Veil, someone Mal had never heard of, gave them a wave to meet them on Planet Pegasus, a newly terraformed world that Mal had heard nothing but bad things about. A payoff was mentioned, and the price was right, as far as Mal was concerned. He had heard that almost anything went, legally speaking, on Pegasus, as there wasn't much in the way of law there. There were a few constables and magistrates around, but they preferred to live, as the planet was almost overrun with criminal lowlifes trying to scrabble out a living robbing each other. Made for the lowest common denominator when it came to survival.

When Mal got to the engine room to find Book and Kaylee mixing a batch of cerepoxy, he was horrified to hear Kaylee singing an all too familiar song. When he thought it couldn't get worse, he heard Book chime in for the chorus.

"Are the fumes from that cerepoxy getting to the two of you, or am I hearin' "The Hero of Canton" seeping out of your windpipes?"

Caught offguard, the pair looked at him sheepishly. Book was actually embarassed to be singing Jayne's theme song from a little town that produced mud. The town had fallen in love with the legend of Jayne Cobb, but the crew had come to hate the song because once it got stuck in your head, apparently, it took weeks to get out.

"Nothing wrong with a little hero worship, Captain. And, no, the fumes are not getting to us, much."

"Yeah, Cap'n. Look here on the cerepoxy package."

Mal took one of the unopened tubes of the ceramic epoxy and saw that it was made with mud from Higgin's moon, the township of C