A Saffron is YOU!

[Les]

Originally Posted by PsyckoSama

Simon actually seems impressed and agrees with you, to a point. The problem with the alliance is that it is the theory that is often sound but the execution sucks. The bureaucracy allows for abuses to slip through the cracks. He glances to River. The worst kind of abuses.

He agrees with the idea of the alliance but the alliance as it stands, he actually takes a deep breath and tells Mal he's sorry they lost. Maybe the 'verse would have been a better place if the Allaince had been forced to eat some humble pie.

Mal snorts and tells him he's a bit regretful about that too.

"Some things just happen because it's the nature of things to happen that way, ain't no reason to it, just gotta be ready for when it happens. Our animals got no reason to stray, outside the settlement there's nothin' but predators, rustlers, an nothin' but bramble-bushes to eat; but we gotta keep 'em fenced in, cause it's their nature to stray. Just like it's man's nature to go corrupt when you give him too much. Too much money, too much food, too much power... The Alliance's theory is that everythin' will be better if we put all the power in one place... we have to keep an eye on the fences in case the animals bust through it, who's keepin' an eye on what's fencin' in the Alliance?"

Sorry, too good a chance to let my inner LOLbertarian out for walkies.

She starts calling you Jei-Jei (Big Sister) after a while.

And Jei-Jei has lots of hugs and cookies for her new little sister, even if she is a brat.

He calms down and says he guesses you're right. Sixty gorram thousand... *sigh*

Wash makes a joke about it taking a beautiful women to clam the savage beast.

Mal says that's his wife Wash is talkin' 'bout and there isn't going to be no beast taming on his watch, no-sir-ree...

I smile, get up, and sit myself right down in Mal's lap. That was the first husbandly thing he's said to me after all.


I look insufferably smug while I'm doing it to.

Eventually you get outside, and the entire town is there to greet the man they call Jayne!

I hide a snicker behind my hand and see if me and Kaylee can separate off and go get that shopping done. I'm especially interested in getting some mudder's milk for the larder, not just for the crew for drinkin' but I've got this idea burnin' in the back of my head for a variation of Rum Cake.