The Sereni-Tree: Life, the Universe, and Everything
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 16:28
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Very tired, TheRealMe plods into the Common Room to see the crowd of people celebrating. He does not have fine clothes on, but rather the uniform he had been wearing before any of this excitement began.
He approaches Washie, and (if she allows it) he gently takes her hand and kisses it.
"I apologize for taking so very long. There was someone that you wanted me to meet?"
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
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Originally posted by seryn:
"ok, I can manage here, for a minute at least, if you want to go get changed Kelly, Serenity?" she looks at Ghost and Shadow, then indicates the other suitcase she had bought with her "here, have a look through there, there may be some suitable things"
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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
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Originally posted by Aprilise:
Ghost looked at the food surrounding them and then to Ms. Luthien, a worried look on her little face for a moment before she began to cry. Shadow was at her side in an instant and after looking at her sister’s face knew exactly what was bothering the young child. Standing up she walked over and stood in front of Kelly “Ms. Luthien, Ghost thinks she won’t get to go to the party cause we don’t gots nothin’ cute to wear. All we got is the clothes we are wearin’” Shadow said pointing to the dirty, ripped pants and threadbare shirt she wore and the threadbare dress that clothed her sister.
"Not to worry, little ones," Kelly says as she gently herds the two girls toward the door. "Looks like Miss Seryn here is nice enough to let us borrow some nice clothes for the party!"
Kelly glances over her shoulder at Seryn, giving her a slight nod of thanks. Once again, her eyes meet another's who recognizes the extreme poverty and disheveled appearances of the little girls. Kelly gives a grim smile, but keeps her concern out of her voice.
"Seryn, Serenity? I leave the kitchen in good hands. I will return shortly!"
Kelly takes Ghost's hand and picks up the bag of clothes as she leaves the kitchen. Shadow follows at Kelly's side, her eyes taking in every detail of their surroundings. With a sigh, Kelly wonders how much of her look is simply in amazement, and how much is plotting pathways of escape if things go wrong for her and Ghost. Shadow clearly has had to grow up too fast.
Kelly leads the girls to her mallorn tree. Their wide eyes at the beautiful silver bark and lush leaves are all the thanks Kelly needs from them as she washes their faces. Kelly digs through the bag of clothing and finds two dresses, slightly too big for the girls, but perfect for the occasion. Shadow and Ghost are soon clothed in burgundy and dark blue dresses, both with shy smiles to complete their transformation.
Kelly quickly runs a brush through her hair and puts on a flowing gown of such a dark green that it almost looks black. Narya, her Ring of Fire, hangs on the silver chain around her neck. When she steps out of her dressing room, the two girls stare in astonishment.
"You're so pretty," Shadow says, her eyes unable to fully meet Kelly's.
Kelly gives a delighted laugh, grabs their hands, and does an impromptu Elven dance with them.
"We are all so pretty!" she says, and leads them back to the kitchen.
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hey're that vulnerable? hmmmm, Would it make sense to have a virus there, ready to go? Something tells me TRM would love to have that to hand."
"Blue Sun MiniSoft Porthole OS." Citizen said standing up. "My old mate Billy Goats told me alot about 'em."
Citizen started sideling over too Kelly and the cookies. "He was the lead security programmer, apparrently he got lost on the way to work one day and ended up in a warehouse on Boros. Terrible sense of direction, programmers I mean."
Citizen pulled a small device from one of his many inside pockets. It had a number of Comms and computer ports on two of its sides. "All in one computer hacking and Virus infection kit. Just something I picked up awhile back from this nice Alliance Internal Security officer." He tossed the device to Seryn before turning to Kelly.
Citizen started a conversation with kelly the content of which is unimportant but it was filled with enough charm to allow him to slip a cookie in to his pocket unseen.
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
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Several hours later in the infirmary
*wakes up suddenly completely alert and feeling much better*
You know I'm getting really tired of all these nutso dreams! I just want answers!
*Sees the room is empty except for a few other sleeping forms*
Right and now I'm talking to myself. Fantastic.
*leans over and gives LMD a quick and walks out of the infirmary*
Frederick is lying somewhat uncomfortably in the small hallway just outside. He lets out a small growl and approaches Mai. He lowers his head and nudges at her gently.
"Hello friend. Sure. I'd love a ride. Mind taking me to the kitchen. Maybe we can find a bit of a snack for the both of us."
Mai, Secretary of Unmentionables.
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Seryn catches the device and pats the dress, looking for pockets. "Aw crap, right"
Ducking behind a table, she lifts up the skirt, taking seemingly forever to catch all of the material "ok, maybe I oughn't wear dresses all that much" and tucks the device into the top of her stockings "these things however, muuuuch more useful than socks or tights" and lets the skirts fall.
Stepping calm and unruffled back to the stove, she hears the littlest girl start to cry, then watches as Kelly soothes them, takes the suitcase with a nod and guides them out of the kitchen.
She lifts the lid on the steamer, "alll done, right, leave the second batch to rise, and i'll take these out now. She loads each onto a little paper circle, then puts them all on a tray, and takes them out, placing them on a table with the rest of the huge spread.
Scanning the room, she crosses to one of the few whole sofas and pokes at the Jadehand reclining there. "you ok sweet? Haven't seen you, for a while, are you not hungry? " he says something, but she's already back at the table, piling a plate up high with food, and trying to work out why he's been drinking again. Going back, she hands him the plate, kisses two of her fingers and taps him on the nose ever so lightly with them. "enjoy, i'll catch you later" and she heads back to the kitchen.
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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
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As Safe prepares to fire the ISSCV's engines, there is a sickening lurch as the Tree hyper-jumps.
"I swear, I'll never get used to that..." Safe mutters, then powers down the ISSCV.
With distance being rapidly piled between them and Boros and the Alliance cruisers, the wear and tear of the last few days starts to make itself known. He really ought to check on Needy, Bride6 and the little ones, but he didn't think his legs would carry him at this point. Citizen and Bride7 could take of themselves, of that much he was certain.
Safe fishes a mini disc out of his pocket and slides it into the control panel. Turning the lights down in the ISSCV, he props his feet up on the locked controls and leans back in the chair. Lingering pain in his left arm prevents him from putting his hands behind his head so he opts instead from crossing his arm on his chest and closes his eyes.
Music from earth-that-was carries softly through the transport, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Dean Martin, Nora Jones.
A young cowboy named Billy Joe
Grew restless on the farm
A boy filled with wanderlust
Who really meant no harm
He changed his clothes and shined his boots
And combed his dark hair down
And his mother cried as he walked out;
"Don't take your guns to town, son
Leave your guns at home, Bill
Don't take your guns to town."
Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny
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Leave your guns at home, Bill
"Billy, don't be a hero
Don't be a fool with your life...."
*ACK!*
*Shoots self in the head.*
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Fortunately, it's only a flesh wound.
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Soul walks slowly down the hallway, his body finally crashing after the recent series of events. He has changed into a pair of dark slacks and a black silk shirt, and his shoes clack on the floor as he walks.
God knows we need a little R&R. He makes a mental note to schedule four straight weeks of sleep.
As he approaches the entrance to the common room, he sees the figure of a girl standing just inside the archway. The girl is unfamiliar to him, but after being on the SereniTREE for as long as he has, Soul knows not to assume anything about anyone. Still, the blade at the small of his back serves as a sort of security blanket as he walks up to the girl.
"Well, who do we have here?"
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Soul, Security Chief of the Sereni-Tree, Captain of Destiny.
Mantichorus: "So is there a reason they call you 'Soul'?"
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Engineering: SR locates Jet's little fridge just as the annoucement of food and fancy dress in the common room reaches out through the PA system. He opens the fridge and finds that there is a leftover hamburger to be had. He weighs the possiblitys and chooses the burger in front of him now over the food in the common room later. He has no clothes of his own that are in any shape to wear as fancy dress and he's so exhausted that sleep will be his next priority after he's done eating. He knows that in his state if he were to go up stairs he would most likely get drunk or say something rude or both and that would be the excuse for fists or worse. He knows that meeting the crew is important, but they will be there when he wakes up and if there aren't then he'll have more important things to worry about. Burger inhaled SR washes it down with water from his canteen. He finds his pack and takes out a air mattress which he lays out on the deck. Using his pack as pilllow SR lies down and falls instantly asleep.
Scorpion Regent
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Food preparation all completed, Seryn heads out to the common room.
Playing mini-hostess, she starts pouring and handing out drinks, non-alcoholic she decides, considering the tired state of most people. That done she stands, at a loss for what to do with herself, it suddenly striking her that she usually avoids these things precisely cause she's crap at the mingling bit.
Looking around, she realises there are several faces missing. Carefully she pulls out a large tray, and starts filling it with plates of food,glasses and a pitcher of the non-alc. sangria, then sets off to deliver them to the absent people.
On the way out of the common room, she spots TRM, talking with Washie. Crossing to them, she smiles "hey, Citizen had an idea, you need to talk to him I suppose, but..." She bends slightly, turning her side to the wall, attempting to retreive the gizmo Citizen had given her, at one point she stumbles, the wieght of the tray getting the better of her, but steadfastly doesn't look to see if people saw, "well, yeah, one alliance busting virus, all ready to go, figured you'd be happy to have it on standby. Well, bye.."
Cheeks burning slightly, she decides to visit the guy who had the damaged arm first, entering the shuttle she's careful to make enough noise to not seem threatening, and places the plate and a glass on a nearby surface. Humming gently to the music, she taps him lightly on the shoulder, smiles and leaves, heading for the infirmary, then the bridge, distributing food as she goes.
On the way she spots Cozen, lying on the floor, bleeding slightly from the head. She squats next to him, feels his pulse, realises he's ok, wads up some of his shirt and presses it to the wound, using his hand to keep it there, and leaves a big plate next to him. She laughs slightly to herself, how does he manage it? and moves off towards engineering, having heard tales of an engineer, but never actually seen her.
Reaching the doors, she knocks, hoping she can be heard, and looks around for an intercom. "hello?"
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