Back Stories III, Chapter 19
Saturday, October 9, 2010
The trials and tribulations of an older, wiser River Tam.
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Chapter 19.
It belongs to Joss and all those business people. I'm just playing.
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, , , BS Book II, BS Book III, Chapter 1. Timing, pairings, and canon blurbs are in my . Many thanks to desertgirl for the beta read.
The first taste was golden, fresh and pungent at the same time. I remember how the nectar burst on my tongue, dark and rich. Like the fire filling my veins, it reminded me that I was alive. I had not given up.
My feast laid still and let me take what I wanted. I devoured the sweet offering, let it coat my hands and lips and bare skin. I was alive. I was hungry and I ate. I was thirsty and I drank. My body burned and was sated. I was not like them, these creatures that I had known. They laid still before me, and the memory of what they had once been to me faded as I took what I wanted from them.
They quenched and satisfied me and I saw that they were not real, not as I was, because they did not rise up. They did not feel the things I did to them. They did not know their own hurts, not like I did mine. I found cuts and bruises on my body. The throbbing of my burned and broken skin enraged me, but was also precious. The pain taught a dear lesson: I was not dead. I was alive and I was hungry. I must be fed.
Back then, at the beginning, my prey let me do as I pleased, but now it is
Never fear, the return to Mal and Inara is nigh. Um... when next I post. Which may be some time. I'll do my best.
But we'll see if I can be right again. I've had my sneaking suspicions that something might be wrong with this Reaver raid, something Alliance going on here. Interesting they're burning the town... Destroying the evidence.
I almost expect we'll see Zoe and Wash on Serenity, and Mal and Inara in Alliance custody. Back under the drugs.
Ratcheting up the tension though. :)
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