Kaylee’s Little List of Important Stuff To Remember

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I been workin’ on Serenity for a while now. It was just chance brought me here, ya know. There I was, mindin’ my own business one day, when this cute little feller started talkin’ to me. Turned out he was a mechanic, on a starship.

Well, I’d always been right handy with engines and what-not myself. Took it up after spending so much time with my Daddy in his shop, I reckon. Anyway, he was kinda cute, and one thing led to another, and. . . .

Well, I wound up with his job! Times ain’t always been shiny, mind you, but they ain’t all been bad neither. I hadn’t never been out in the black ‘fore I came to Serenity, and I wasn’t much over bein’ a school girl when I did. Learned a lotta things the hard way, I did.

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1) Strawberries is hard to come by in the black.

2) If it’s shiny, it costs more. No matter what it is.

3) When ya go to buy parts, take somebody intimidatin’ with ya. A mercenary if ya got one. Our’s is right intimidatin’ and I always get a good discount on what I need when he’s along.

4) “We’ll explode” is always a good way to get the Captain’s attention when he don’t wanna hear about you needin’ parts.

5) Stay away from bounty hunters. And reavers. And Feds. I hate to speak ill o’ folks, but they’s just plain mean, that’s all.

6) Never borrow anything you can’t afford to pay for if’n you break it.

7) If you’re a good mechanic, you ain’t never got to worry ‘bout findin’ work. Ain’t that many around.

8) Try not to get shot, it hurts. But if you got a shiny, handsome doctor on board, you should be okay. Once he decides not to let you die, anyway.

9) If your sister-in-law tells ya your husbands a boob, he done went and did somethin’ you need to smack him for. Go find him.

10) If the boat’s merc wanders by muttering in Mandarin, and throwing words like ‘pansy’ and ‘doc’ and ‘core boy’ in with’em, your