Thanks for the kind comments concerning the first part, I forgot to add at the beginning that the Firefly characters are obviously someone else’s property and that I am neither intending nor likely to make any money out of this.

I haven’t figured out if it is possible to reply to reviews personally so for Blueeyedbrigader’s benefit I’m ashamed to say that though I am half Welsh (Mother’s side) I don’t speak the language and had to dig out a phrase book.

Chinese translations are courtesy of a web site and I hope they’re not ridiculously wrong.

To reply to both written reviews, I hope this answers some questions.

As I mentioned in the first part chunks of the plot are swiped from the favourite Western of my childhood, anyone like to guess? :-)

Reviews are more than welcome.

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In Sunshine and in Shadow Part 2

“Dros fy nghrogi! Sides, it won’t be mine, it’d be yours.”

Owen Thomas was giving some kind of pep talk to his two remaining and mighty sullen gun hands.

Mal stood back and let his friend bring his men to order, it was kinda comforting to watch another man be argued at by his crew. The bar had cleared out after the fight, only the serious drinkers lurked in the corners.

Jayne appeared at his elbow, half his fly buttons undone, his girl still hanging off his shoulder.

“Did I miss a fight? There’s a whole lotta blood out front.”

Mal took a look at the girl, her hair was mussed, her buttons were done up wrong and part of her skirt seemed to be tucked in her underwear. She had the misty look of the well plastered or the well…something else.

“Yep you missed it.”

“Damn!” Jayne let go of his girl who ended up in an ignominious heap on the floor. “A fight could’ a just finished the day off right. You could’ a called me”

“It was over too quick, looks like you were busy… Am I gonna have some angry father chasing us with a gun?”

Jayne looked down at the girl who was making some spirited but ineffective efforts to get