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[makesmeatease]

Inara comes in wearing the expression in the icon. And carrying a pile of socks. And looking annoyed that she's entered Milliways and not wherever she was headed with the socks.

(Spoiler: She was headed to go toss them at her husband's head because he's let them pile up again.)



A helpful wait-rat brings her a laundry basket. They know her too well.

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[poins]

"Mal is his name?" Poins laughs. "Like 'malediction' or 'malevolent'?"

[makesmeatease]

bad in the latin River's voice rings in her ears for a moment.


"Malcolm."

[poins]

"A Scotsman then?" Poins laughs. "Thou art too good for him!"

[makesmeatease]

"I'd be surprised if he could trace his lineage that far back, to Earth That Was." Inara smiles. "But perhaps."

[poins]

"Earth that was?" Poins says. "Hath mankind, then, destroyed the very ground beneath its own two feet? And whereto hath it gone, once it no longer had the ground to stand upon?"