Something To Think On: Chapter 2
Thursday, July 30, 2009
M/I. Post-BDM. Hints at secrets from Sihnon.
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Something To Think On
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Chapter Two
Get used to you. That there was something of a joke, since he reckoned he’d never quite get used to her. Partly because it was so damned hard to tell with her how much was truthsome and how much was wiles. He conjured the truthsome moments were few and far between.
She was a Companion, well-trained one at that. So damned good at what she did that it was frightful easy to forget, forget that every gesture – the little smiles and the wide eyes and the worried way she sometimes pursed her lips – was calculated to win something, to fool someone. A man could lose himself. He reckoned many had. Hell, he reckoned he was the fool more often than he cared to know. Oft-times found himself thinking on times they were together, wondering which was truthsome and which was wiles. Found himself trying to make her mad, just to see that little flash in her eyes he knew she couldn’t quite tame.
Funny how he didn’t realize till it was passed just how zhēn that moment in his bunk was, that moment when she’d come to him and asked to stay. Because, thinking back, it seemed plain to him that that wasn’t about wiles. No. Wiles were the reverse psychology she came armed with when she wanted him to think it was his gorram idea to go to this rock or that. Wiles were the smiles she gave him once they were there when she asked if they might could linger a day longer than need be. But wiles wasn’t that desperate little note in her voice when she’d asked him not to turn her away.
Because wiles – wiles, he conjured, were a thing she used to get what she wanted. Staying on Serenity’d been something
The foreshadowing of her leaving for clients and leaving at the end of the series is ace. And Inara's polite diplomacy at the dinner table, among mostly strangers, especially with her just insulted, is so her. She seems very alone.
So pretty, both what she says to Kaylee to make her feel better , and Mal's noticing here that Inara is so sad and broken, and it's something that maybe can't be fixed. Something he sees in himself.
"You can't take the sky from me!"
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