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Inara Laughs- Crushing Comforts

Sunday, April 1, 2007

Commitment problems? Possible 'insight' as to why Inara left the ship or how I picture her mind working

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******This is the second version of Inara Laughs(2)-Gloomy?. I got bored and decided to post it. Let me know what ya'll think. Do you like this version better???? I have no idea how I feel about it*********

~The world is in your hands or it's at your throat~

She stared bleakly into the open space. There was nothing to look at, nothing worth her gaze. She kept her eyes open despite the fact; it would have looked strange if she sat with them closed merely because there was nothing of interest keeping them open. It seemed she was the only one who noticed how mediocre everything was. There was a definite lack of spice in her life, and every day it was getting harder and harder to find something worth keeping her eyes open. Even River, in her most entertaining moments, was just another person she lived her excitement through, none to claim her own. Her thoughts bored her, insignificant. Why was everything so irrelevant? There had always been a longing for a substantial change, a yearning for the better, the new, the amazing. But people always proved to be a simple distraction, something to bide her time until she knew them. Then all their fancy quirks became merely a show to hide insecurities like one hides embarrassment with jokes. No one was as special as they pretended to be. And she hated the fact she knew. Once the sparkles of a new friend wore off they were nothing more than every other person she’d ever met: ordinary and afraid. It could be the fact that her welcome was overstayed, she was now bored of the people she came to trust, to love. The place she called home, once brimming with possibility now bland and old with memories. Clogging up valuable promises of the new. She had had commitments before, but got around them. Malcolm Reynolds would prove to be a barrier she was unsure of how to attack. To break down. They would not understand the itching of her soul, the numbness of her senses. It wanted to be cleansed the only way she knew how, to start over. She could feel the comfort crushin

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Sunday, 01 April 2007 08:27
This would have been easier to read if you had not posted it in a single block. A paragraph or two would have made all the difference. I thought this was an interesting angle on Inara's inner thoughts, an insight which indicates she may be even more damaged on some level than River. She just hides it better. Must be those Companion wiles. But she is a silly goose as well, unable to cherish what she has. Ali D :~)
You can't take the sky from me
Monday, 02 April 2007 22:32
Ok...let's see now:

1) Like Ali D said, one giant block of text = damn hard to read. Unless your William Faulkner or another practioner of stream-of-consciousness thinking;

2) Intriguing idea here, having Inara suffer a nasty case of wanderlust/ADD. Guess the downside to being a Companion would be being in a generally static environment;

3) Definitely interested in the part of this paragraph-drabble about Inara's perception of Mal being the only thing she can't break down, process and get bored with. And this seems to scare her crapless for some reason;)

BEB

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