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Double-drabble again.
Oh snap, I'm posting again. I'm not especially happy with this one, but it is kind of, uh, 6:30 a.m. as I'm wrapping it up. Once again hoping I can catch the deadline. At this point I don't know if I'm continuing to do double-drabbles because I've done them so far for the rest of the series or if I actually need that much wordage.
Title: Honest Day's Work Part 6 (1-5 and 6 are collected here for convenience.)
Prompt: Stop
Author: Seph
Word Count: 200
Characters: Inara, Kaylee
On Earth-that-was, Inara was told, was a forest older than time - no, a single tree, with thousands of stems. It covered the mountainside, this one tree. The Trembling Giant. It was there long before people and she wondered what it could tell her, had it the chance. Age brings wisdom. Shame nothing here was near that old. Everything is man-made now, even the trees.
No mysteries in the black.
She sat, admitedly uncomfortable, in the hammock in the engine room, watching Kaylee coax another week or two of functioning out of Serenity. It was an enigma to her, but Kaylee knew it inside and out. “We'll be at Dyton Colony in a few days,” Inara said at length, over the thrum of Serenity's heart. “I hear he's going to let you land her this time.”
Kaylee came up for air, wiping greasy hands on a rag. “Yep. Should be cake,” she said. “Cap says ya treat her right, she does just what you ask.” Kaylee patted a support strut and cooed, “Ain't that right, girl?”as she walked by, leaving a bemused Inara alone in the compartment.
Maybe she still had some mysteries to stop to ponder.
Title: Honest Day's Work Part 6 (1-5 and 6 are collected here for convenience.)
Prompt: Stop
Author: Seph
Word Count: 200
Characters: Inara, Kaylee
On Earth-that-was, Inara was told, was a forest older than time - no, a single tree, with thousands of stems. It covered the mountainside, this one tree. The Trembling Giant. It was there long before people and she wondered what it could tell her, had it the chance. Age brings wisdom. Shame nothing here was near that old. Everything is man-made now, even the trees.
No mysteries in the black.
She sat, admitedly uncomfortable, in the hammock in the engine room, watching Kaylee coax another week or two of functioning out of Serenity. It was an enigma to her, but Kaylee knew it inside and out. “We'll be at Dyton Colony in a few days,” Inara said at length, over the thrum of Serenity's heart. “I hear he's going to let you land her this time.”
Kaylee came up for air, wiping greasy hands on a rag. “Yep. Should be cake,” she said. “Cap says ya treat her right, she does just what you ask.” Kaylee patted a support strut and cooed, “Ain't that right, girl?”as she walked by, leaving a bemused Inara alone in the compartment.
Maybe she still had some mysteries to stop to ponder.