Kaylee woke up very early, with the twilight just starting to brighten outside the windows, and she was feeling restless. Part of it was excitement - very late the last night, after Simon had gone to bed, she'd found something that they might just be able to use against the security systems... the old simulations trick. In order to be sure that his own personal security staff was at top readiness, Bentley insisted on regular scenario drilling, and as part of that, the monitors could show constructed footage that had been provided by the makers of an expansion software pack, integrated with what the security cameras were really picking up at the time.

No drill had been scheduled for the duration of the conference, for obvious reasons. But Kaylee had found the expansion program, had managed to bypass the moderately strong security precautions against triggering it without authorization, (with the help of a little code decryption doohickey that she'd actually got from Niska's people before they realized what a sick little cat he was,) and explored some of its potentialities. What's more, she'd managed to figure out that the Alliance people were deeply enough into the same surveillance network that whatever fakes she fed in, they would see them too. If a massive distraction could help them with the heist, (and seriously, when would it not?) then that she could provide.

She'd sent the word to Mal, Inara, and Serenity about what she'd found, asking about when and how they thought it could best be put to use, and hadn't gotten any reply back in an hour, before going to sleep herself. That had been - only around five hours ago, but she didn't feel like she could stay in bed for any longer, so she got out of the bed and headed over to the cortex interface directly. About halfway there, she just made out a quiet moan or sigh from the direction of the living room.

That simple sound, hardly anything above the background noise of the sleeping giant mansion, managed to electrify her nonetheless, simply because she kne