TRAUMA MEDICINE: Chapter five. Freeze to death first.
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
Mal has a couple of cunning plans. Zoe recalls a traumatic incident from their first night of freedom after the war. And Simon and Book come aboard.
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TRAUMA MEDICINE: Chapter 5.
Freeze to death first.
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You've been cold for so long – shut down, insensate for so very long that it's easy to believe you've always been this way. You're used to it now and can even take comfort from the numbness, the lack of feeling. Better this than the electric sting of nerves and blood. At least you're safe here in. Cerebral, cardiac and pulmonary activity suspended. Deep frozen in your metal shell.
But under the ice floe, a warmer current is moving closer. You can feel it coming. All is flux and flow and nothing is forever. Things change and you must change with them. The seasons progress and winter must give way to spring. The frost will melt away and you will uncurl. You will blossom despite your fears.
Part of you longs for it just as part of you tries to burrow deeper into the snow.
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“Definitely a big ship, Sir, and she's without power.”
Captain Grayson hesitates. It pains him to have to let the hyenas go but he has no choice. The Dortmunder's gunships are only short-range and don't carry enough fuel to cover five clicks unsupported, let alone thirteen. “Gunships'd never get back to us in time...all right. Let's go help those people.” Then it occurs to him that he doesn't have to let those pirates get away scot-free. “Put a bulletin out on the Cortex,” he tells the ensign “and flag Interpol: a Firefly with possibly stolen goods aboard. Maybe someone'll step on those roaches.” He certainly hopes so. Because people like these undermine the civilized values the Alliance is trying to spread throughout the 'verse.
These vultures need to be stopped.
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“You want to do what , Sir?” Zoe asks incredulously, leaning back again
The flashback scene between Mal and Zoe was literally hard to get through, so well written was it. It gave me the uncomfortables every which way, which is a powerful statement of how effective it was. Yet understated and not-graphic, which made it work even more as I could fill in the details vividly for myself. I can see it as a thing between them they could step past and at the same time leaves a permanent wall separating them. It worked.
All the characters thoughts twined into the "Serenity" scenes were utterly convincing.
Wonderful!
I love the way you weave in the actual plot, storylines and dialogue: it gives a real ring of credibility.
The scene with Mal and Zoe was a bot of a shocker, wonder how they managed to get past that?! Hopefully a later installment will tell all.
Please post again soon
Hazel
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