Back Stories III, Chapter 24
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Mal returns to a few familiar places.
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Chapter 24.
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. And many more thanks to the readers who have left reviews or sent me notes encouraging me to roll with those updates. I’m looking at you ebf! :)
On some level, he was aware. His eyes took in patterns of color and brightness, his ears received words and sound, he tasted the air he breathed. But the signals passed through his conscious mind as if none of it could have anything to do with him, not the exotically beautiful black-haired woman pleading as she touched his face, not the purple uniformed soldiers pulling him away from her, not the sadly slouching couple who stood aside as he was led through a empty cargo bay to his ship’s airlock.
The cold white lights and neat straight corridors of the vessel he entered didn’t cause the slightest ripple on the placid surface of his mind. He didn’t attempt to measure the time that passed while he sat in a small room, a cell he might have called it, if he’d bothered forming words. He simply stared, eyes fixed to a blank white wall, and waited.
It was all the same to him when soldiers reappeared, pulled him to his feet, and led him through h
But I don't think it's going to go pretty.
And I'm even more concerned about what they might have learned from him after putting him through the whole process. And what subconcious bits of manipulative conditioning they might have slipped in.
And now finally some Mal POV. This is very interesting, to see his POV on the mental fog he fell into a few chapters ago...and it's the return to that room (still on Oeneus?) that stimulates the first reaction he's shown in a while.
The backstory was excellent. Particularly liked: “You are like your father,” she finally says. “That a bad thing?” he asks.
You succeeded in making that comfortable, clean, bright room creepy right from the get-go. He's in a hospital, he's still restrained, and this is definitely *not* good...
Thank you, m4p, for this new chapter. Hoping you're on a roll, and that we'll see the next before long!
"You can't take the sky from me!"
:)
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