on recently getting back into firefly; looking at all the games

[comprehend]

You shouldn't stir up old ghosts. They don't like to be disturbed, and they're noisy. Crowding up the room with their chatter. It's loud in here.

( but she glances pensively off to the side, oddly tranquil -- for now. )

Is it time to wake up? No days in the black. I won't know.

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[interitum]

[Ghosts .. in someone who seems so young. It's disquieting.]

Ghosts are loud, but they can also be banished. They fear the black more than we do.

[comprehend]

( fear is a palpable emotion, even when people push it back to the recesses of their minds. her mind is all boarded up, nails and coffins made from the precise cuts of a scalpel. back on earth-that-was, primitive peoples would drill holes in the skull to let the demons out. all river knows is that the academy cut her open to put them in.

she is too open. she can smell the death in him, can taste the echoes of fear. the fact that he's not human is more of a curiosity to her than anything else. she wants to poke him, wants to peer at his skin and wonder why it's so green, but that's rude. )

Do you fear the black?

( you're a ghost, thane krios. )

[interitum]

[Idle curiosity, or an implication? There is something in this child's eyes that unsettles him. Something painful, vulnerable, but profoundly intelligent all the same. And his own gaze is one that does not shift from its mask--somehow, it's likely that doesn't matter.

Perhaps he does speak from experience.

He's looked out on it. Counting stars has become habit. They're in his mind, but they never stay in the same place, and the endless churn of the universe around him is a pattern he will never memorize.]

I've been lost in it, yes. But I always find my way back to colour. As will you.

[comprehend]

( she unsettles a lot of people, and the worst thing about being a reader is that she understands that. there are plenty of things people say without saying a single word. but at this point, river doesn't mind much. even kaylee looks at her a certain way sometimes. even simon knows that she's dangerous. an assassin. a word with very old roots.

river tilts her head. she gives thane half a smile. )

Stars and moons. Green, like trees after terraforming. Your universe is different.