“Haven’t had a good bit of trim in a while ‘n’ ya were real good girl.” Jayne complimented the girl standing beside him.

“Ain’t none of the women on your ship accommodatin?” Helen asked.

“Don’t much like to carry on with girl folk I gotta live with.” He grinned to himself. To tease ‘em he didn’t always give the girls that impression. “’Sides Zoë’s married and a stone killer, ‘Nara’s a companion who don’t service crew, River’s crazy and Kaylee..” he trailed off

“The mechanic, she’s real pretty. What ‘bout her?”

“She ain’t interested in me.” Jayne said this as an accepted fact. He wanted it to be that way. Kaylee and he were friends and he weren’t ‘bout to loose that, didn’t have that many real friends. “Anyway she’s all fong lah for the doc.”

Helen couldn’t believe that any woman wouldn’t be interested in him. He might be a bit rough, a bit slow brained but the man was so swai. He was good in bed, a fighter, protector, be a real keeper for the right girl.

The doctor was a complete contrast. He was good lookin’ alright, but so stiff and proper, hadn’t even looked at any of the girls when he came in.

She’d seen the girl when she came in, heard a couple of her wistful comments. If Kaylee weren’t lookin’ for companionship as well as sex, Helen didn’t know girls.

Helen liked to meddle, it was her hobby. She wanted to thank these people who’d come to help a bunch of whores. There wasn’t much she could offer really, exceptin’ for her meddlin’. So when they were clearin’ up and Kaylee was nearby she put her plan into action.

“So Helen how was the big guy?” that was Wendy always wantin’ to know every detail. “Any good?”

“Ai ya” she didn’t have to fake that sigh “big all over, beautiful muscles.”

“And?” prompted the girls.

“Good at sex, wo da ma. Gave real pleasure didn’t just take, ya know? All technique though, makes ya wonder what he’d be like with someone he cared ‘bout. I’d have him back any day, wouldn’t even ask him to pay.”

She watched Kaylee takin’ in what she heard, an ar