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Susanna's Story: Ch4

Friday, September 24, 2004

Backstory for YoSaffBridge prior to OMR

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A/N: This chapter is a belated birthday fic for CassieE---I kept promising to get back to YoSaff, but had to wait on her fickle muse first. Thanks to Neroli for the excellent beta work.

I'm using the timeline from FireflyWiki.org with slight modifications.

Chapter 4: Moving Up in the 'Verse (or Role of a Lifetime)

2513, Age 20

Susanna, or rather one Sandra Bridges as her current false identification papers named her, looked around Jiangyin's small dockyard. Having been unable to pull off a con large enough to establish a sizeable nest egg, she needed another score soon. However, she wasn't going to be rushed into any scheme or partnership without planning. Unless the right opportunity presented itself of course, she thought to herself as an older man approached her with a kind smile.

Carefully schooling her features to make the most of her rain-soaked condition and low-class attire, she turned her attention to the mark. Definitely older, she'd almost hazard a guess at beyond sixty if not seventy years old. His wrinkled face showed kindness, but Sandra could detect no glitter of senility in his bright blue eyes. His silver hair was still thick and his clothes…oh my, his clothes indicated that he had lots of money that he still hadn't bestowed on his heirs.

She curtsied when he approached to shield her with his umbrella from the gentle but constant rain that fell. "Excuse me miss, are you waiting for someone or do you need help finding a particular destination?" he queried kindly.

Sandra carefully tried to hide the tears she produced as her lips began to tremble. "No, no sir. Perhaps if you could direct me to a cheap boarding house?" She could tell by her mark's discomfort that she'd chosen just the right approach.

"There, there, don't cry," the older man said as h

Comments
Monday, 27 September 2004 08:33
Good story! And quite well written. I like the twining of settings and characters already established.

So... if I were to say my birthday was coming up, could I get a new chapter of "Camouflage"? Two chapters, maybe??
Monday, 27 September 2004 14:09
Interesting idea for how Saffron got to know so much about ships, since I'm certain that sort of thing is not in the curriculum at Whore Academy.

Glad you restarted on this series, as I was starting to wonder if this would be yet another Terminally Incomplete Fanfic.
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Monday, 06 February 2006 16:29
Heh, cool, you really captured YoSafBridge's voice. She's so evil, you can't help but like her!! Update soon, please

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