Blah, blah, blah. Not mine, not mine, not mine.

“Simon, tell us what needs to be done and the safest way to do it,” Mal says. “I know it’s gonna take a while to get us clean, so let’s be getting’ started. Kaylee, see if you can figure how to get water out of that wellhead for starters, ‘cause I think water’s gonna be a big part of this.”

“Kaylee, wait before you go to the well, so you can hear what steps we need to take.” Simon sounded assured, perhaps a little more assured than he felt. What if, in the end, they couldn’t make Serenity safe to fly in again? It wasn’t as though they had access to much in the way of supplies.

“First, I want everything made of fiber off Serenity: All your laundry, clean or dirty; pillows; blankets; bedding of all kinds; the one tablecloth; everything. Bring it out and pile it on the ground. Then, anything loose needs to come off, anything that’s not bolted down. Spread all that out, too. And Mal, all that horse equipment has to come off, too. I think the airborne spores came out of our water, but we can’t take a chance that it’s now growing in the bedding and hay.

“Then, once we have water we’ll start flushing the water lines on Serenity. I don’t have anything like a sanitizer in the quantities we need, so we’re going to have to hope that volume will do it. The thing to remember about the mold spores is that as long as they are not concentrated and aren’t flying around we’re reasonably unlikely to get as sick as Zoe and Gowan. We need to open up every port and access so we can get as much air as we can blowing through – the airborne concentrations inside don’t seem particularly high so I think we may not need to scrub every inch of Serenity.”

“Okay, people – start by clearing your cabins,” Mal nodded at the crew and Inara.

“Simon, does my shuttle need to be emptied in the same way?” asked Inara. “I heard you say that the shuttles seemed less infected.”

“Everything needs to be brought out into the sun,” said Simon. “I think that’s safest. We’re lucky there’s