"Wrong question. You should be asking, what am I?"

"You’re a girl." Scoffs Jayne as he looks at me. Vulgar mind this one. He's thinking of how my black hair would look if it were not in a bun but let loose. He wants to take off the tattered clothing that I am wearing to see the muscular, curvy body that it does not hide. Amazing that he wants to know how my legs would feel around him, since if placed in just the right spot and with the right amount of pressure could suffocate him. Simon wasn't too far in thinking of him as an ape-man thing. Yet, simple is the best way to describe this one. He knows what he wants and that's that. How easy his life must be. Living in the moment. Although I don't like where this moment is taking him. Mal, in the meantime, rolls his eyes and then focuses back on me.

"What are you?" He asks. I look at him and see the black that envelops his mind. Strange that he would live in such darkness. He doesn't even know the real darkness. He's lost.

"I am classified as a hybrid. River was supposed to be the first one of our kind, but the experiment went sour, due to their incompetence." Simon scoffs as he looks at me through narrow eyes. Kaylee holds his hand as she takes a seat next to him. River is huddled against the paneling of the ship averting her eyes from me. River!

"How easy for you to speak of her as a lab rat." Simon says through clenched teeth.

"We are what they made us." I say as I sit down on the crates.

"They made her into a reader." Simon replies repulsively.

"That was just a lucky mistake."

"Lucky!" He shouts at me getting up. "Lucky - that they made her into this warped girl, who feels everything. Lucky - that they took my sister and experimented on her. Was it luck that got her through those days in there? Was it luck that she was taken to that school and was forfeited her right to live normally?" Pointing his finger at me he walks toward me. "You are here to take her back, otherwise how did you get out? That place," he said with a disgus