Authors note – Based on the Trans – U we saw on the original pilot ‘Serenity.’

Second in the Tales of the verse Series

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Reavers leave no survivors, that is true.

Even if they don’t rend you limb from limb or rape you to death. There are ways to kill a person, inches by inches a way to kill who they where. Who they thought they where.

The woman formally known as Beka Gibbons knew that with all her heart.

But Beka was gone, all her illusions gone with the coming of the Reavers. Her and her ten year old sister had been on route to meet their parents. When like a vision of hell itself they descended apoun their transport ship like a wolf out of the night.

Reavers.

**oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god **

**Beka ! **

** Its ok Mei Mei, its going to be all ok**

Even at the memory the woman felt nothing but numbness, a result of her new outlook of life. The cold, unending numbness of the heart. It was like she was looking back at another woman named Beka and her trusting little sister Tanya.

It was another woman not her who swore nothing would happen to her little sister then was held down and watched as they cut into Tanya, and they …

***No no no no no no no no no no no, not real. This cant be real, the verse can’t be this cruel***

….did what Reavers did best while they held her eyes open and made her see, every cut. Every whimper and every scream and Beka screamed along with her little sister. Screamed herself hoarse and begged them to stop, begged them to kill her; begged them to let her tear her own eyes out.

But they didn’t.

They made her watch as they dragged out whole families and did things dreamt of in the darkest part of the mind. They killed her sister first as they made her little sister beg and made Beka ‘see.’

They tore apart all her conceptions of right and wrong, of morality. They whispered in her ear as her mind and soul grew numb with shock…

*** All are cattle, all are weak. No god out here, o