Fic: Better the Minds (River)
Title: Better the Minds
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: River
Prompt: #016 Choice
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Summary: The Academy offers a program unlike anything other she has seen.
Warning: Written for ficlets100. 7/8/10.
The choice is easy. It’s shiny and new and it’s challenging. The Academy offers a program unlike anything other she has seen. It has subjects other schools do not and the brochures explain how they strive to better the minds of all who go through it. It’s exactly what she has been looking and hoping for.
“That one,” she tells her mother. She pastes the smile on her face that she knows will get her anything she desires. Her parents are easy to manipulate.
Together they read through the material from start to finish.
“It looks perfect for you.”
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: River
Prompt: #016 Choice
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Summary: The Academy offers a program unlike anything other she has seen.
Warning: Written for ficlets100. 7/8/10.
The choice is easy. It’s shiny and new and it’s challenging. The Academy offers a program unlike anything other she has seen. It has subjects other schools do not and the brochures explain how they strive to better the minds of all who go through it. It’s exactly what she has been looking and hoping for.
“That one,” she tells her mother. She pastes the smile on her face that she knows will get her anything she desires. Her parents are easy to manipulate.
Together they read through the material from start to finish.
“It looks perfect for you.”