Antebellum - Book I: Chapter Seven
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
The seventh chapter in a Big Damn Sequel series. In this installment: No one's sleeping on the Road to Neo Sombra, with vague sprinklings of M/I and S/K added for good measure.
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Book One – Chapter Seven
Mal looked at the ETA panel again. Twelve hours, forty-three minutes, twelve seconds. Eleven seconds. Ten seconds.
Stop counting seconds, you jackass, Mal thought.
He couldn’t sleep. He tried, but it did no good. So he sat up on the bridge, watching the stars drift by, occasionally flipping several switches that had no purpose. During the installation of the new-tech autopilot, several bypasses were made so that many of the buttons and switches on the control panel were made pretty much unnecessary. Now, they were mainly just for show.
Mal had never actually been to Neo Sombra, but he knew the way like the back of his hand. He found it odd the things his mind instinctively logged into his memory plate. He honestly had no intention to ever go to that moon, but nevertheless, he knew the way. In fact, he knew the quickest way, and he had no idea why.
“You still awake?”
Inara’s voice broke through Mal’s thoughts like they usually did when she spoke. It didn’t shatter his reverie, only sliced it cleanly in half.
“Yeah. No rest for the weary, some man said.”
Inara gracefully floated over to the co-pilot’s station and sat down. Mal was genuinely amazed to see how well she sat in the chair. It wasn’t an action that took a lot of work, but somehow Inara seemed to be the best at it.
“Others still awake?” Mal asked.
“Most have already gone to bed. Simon and Kaylee are in the infirmary.”
Mal sighed and put a hand to his forehead. “如果他们拧紧…”
Inara laughed softly. “She’s getting inoculated, Mal.”
“I don’t even wanna think about what kinda euphemism that could be.”
“Have you gotten inoculated yet?” Mal raised his eyebrows. “In the non-creepy-euphemism way.”
Mal flipped a few more switches. “Naw. I’ll probably wait ‘til we’re landing. Simon hates it when I do that.”
Mal felt Inara’s soft gaze fall upon him, and he tried not to look up.
Inara breathed in deep before speaking. “Mal. I di
I had to go back and read all the others.
Your character voices are spot on.
I particularly liked this line:
"The day Simon disobeyed an order from Zoe would either be the day before or after all his limbs were broken, so he complied."
Keep them coming!
Taya
You can't take the sky from me
Anyway, great chapter can't wait for more.
As always my fine bard we await your next installment.
“And I knew, I knew at that moment that this man… he would be the one… that I would screw while Serenity was in the air.”
Simon cocked his head ever so slightly. “How is it you don’t write for greeting cards?”
my computing class now think i'm a complete loony as i'm grinning like a moonbrain at a screen that's supposed to show how LANs work...
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I hope Simon gets his chance to give Kaylee that necklace - and ask her to marry him . . .
The conversation with Kaylee and Simon was just funny and wonderful as usual.
“The authority of, uh… um…” The stegosaurus was stumped.
“Enough of your extemporization! You’ve been stealing the gold from my temple for far too long! Now die!”
All of a sudden the T-rex lunged for the throat of the stegosaurus. The cries of anguish and pain were silenced abruptly by the presence of a third voice.
“Actually, the T-rex doesn’t know big words like that,” Zoe said.
I was laughing so hard at how into it Simon had gotten, just to be shut down by Zoe at the exact perfect moment! So wonderful!!!
>Kaylee smiled wearily despite the wetness on her cheeks. Slowly she managed to climb off of Simon and felt a bit dizzy when she stood on her feet.
Dizzy? A - pregnant kind of dizzy by any chance?
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