Hell in a Handbasket - Prologue
Saturday, December 13, 2008
It’s one bad thing after another as the crew tries to rescue River from a body-snatcher who is using her psychic abilities against her. 17 years post-BDM action-adventure. Cannon pairings: M/I, S/K, J/OC.
CATEGORY: FICTION TIMES READ: 3172 RATING: 9.0 (PG) SERIES: FIREFLY
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Prologue
It wasn’t real, but if River had to describe it, she’d say the space was cluttered. It was perfectly bright, perfectly warm, and everything had a place, though some things were harder to find. Floor to ceiling cabinets, packed with information, formed narrow aisles, and River moved purposefully, locking as many as possible. The aisles formed concentric circles around a wide arena, where all external sensory perceptions were processed. The physical and the tangible perceptions came only through the center of the arena, while the extrasensory – people’s thoughts and memories – were apparitions appearing in random places at random times throughout the arena. That’s where the intruder had first appeared.
He was a wraith at first, like the others. More lingering, though. River had thought him an under-practiced psychic at first blush, because it was how she’d experienced Michael early on. They had learned to meet each other in the arena – her and Michael. It wasn’t that he controlled when he appeared; it was that he controlled where, and
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