Spin

Chapter 2

Cast of Players & Places:

Iron Eagle or Eagle Eye- Ira Eggers

GAT

WWDC15-Warden Wartouski Detainment Center 15.

Mal Reynolds

Jayne Cobb

River Tam

Simon Tam

Zoë Washburn

Wash- Washburn

Kaylee

Shepherd Book

Inara

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*SPIN*

River Tam often though of words and their meanings, or what they referred to. Not that her brain had been soaked in Alliance diesel fluid so long that it was beyond having cohesive thought. On the contrary, River’s mind held thoughts, and secrets that would likely make other humans insane. She was one of a handful of subjects the powers of government knew could withstand the intense training and testing as needed for development of something useful for them in the verse, something special.

*SPIN*,………the word was shifting around in the young River Tam‘s brain. What was the use of SPIN? The young Tam questioned. A spider could spin it’s web. A teller of tall tales could spin a story. The hands of a clock could spin around it‘s face, and a world in the universe could spin on it’s axis. Yes! This is what River Tam had on her mind right at that moment. The spinning of a planet as it moved through it’s orbit.

Commonly known but not particularly interesting to you average air breathing human being, or critter mind you, but the revolutions by which planets and moons rotated in the system were at different speeds. Yes they spun faster or slower than others around them, and yes this effected all of “Time” , and how it was used in the verse. Time of arrival, time of departure. Time to eat, time to sleep. Time to send a shipment of goods to a customer, time to receive them, time to plan a robbery, and time to bury your dead.

Every moon and planet spun at a different pace, yet time for them was measured the same. It boggler your average human mind, so much so that most people didn’t concern themselves with it. But it didn’t boggle Rivers mind. The girl Tam was used to having compl