Easy Tickets: Chapter 13
Monday, June 19, 2006
First, a short break for sciencey stuff. Then – what in the world happened to get Inara so upset?
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See and my for disclaimers and such. Except I have to say thanks to VERA2529 and LEEH for the beta help! Mandarin translations: put your mouse over the pinyan to get the definitions, or see the list at the end. Wicked long chapter here, but all this needed to be told in one place! Regarding my science-y stuff: in my version of the ‘verse, there are many star systems. I know it’s not the movie way, but hey, it’s my story, I’ll break canon if I want to. :p And another warning: adult content. Nothing explicit, but I’ll call it rated R.
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From a distance, the planetary rings of Niflheim are a series of solid tan-gray disks separated by dark gaps. They appear smooth and uniform, and infinitesimally thin.
Up close, they are much more complicated. This is true of all ring systems, but Niflheim’s rings have a few particular traits which make them of value to the human race; these characteristics are a result of Niflheim’s unique history.
Most planetary rings are found around planets much more massive than Niflheim, and result from strong tidal forces that may prevent a new moon from forming in the proto-planetary cloud. Or, the tidal forces may actually tear apart an existing moon which has come too close to the planet’s surface. Niflheim was never weighty enough to wield such power; it received its adornment through a cosmic accident.
Eons ago, while the planet was in its infancy, it had a single small moon. That changed when a massive comet wondered in from the outer reaches of the solar system. It was caught in the planet’s gravity, settling into a tilted, highly elliptical orbit. It was only a matter of time before the comet and the moon were more intimately acquainted.
In the collision, the hard, crystalline nucleus of the comet was jarred hard enough to shed its outer layers of snow and ice, but, though fractured, the nucl
Ray's more likely to kill Will than Inara right now. He's sensible enough to know when a mad dog needs putting down. I'm not worried for her; to be honest I'm not incredibly worried that Mal is dead, as he has died before and come out pretty much OK, though I'm very worried still about the whole situation.
Keep flying...
>Acts of kindness had never been Mal’s
>strong point, but surely he was
>capable. The way he treated Kaylee…
>Inara sighed. Kaylee was such an
>innocent and loving soul; she invited
>kindness. Not like a fancied up whore.
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>She dropped her head and wiped at her
>eyes again. Mal’s opinion of her
>profession wasn’t all there was to it;
>she treated him just as poorly as he
>treated her. She wasn’t capable of the
>kind of love that could overcome the
>barriers he had around him, and he’d
>never be able to heal the hurts that
>life had done to her.
I love how you do everyone's inner conflict and self doubt so well. How we get to see the characters' weaknesses and strengths simultaneously. Like the way Inara is able to defeat Will, but is left helpless afterwards.
I've saved my comments for the last two chapters and will post them there when allowed. I'm going to be going out of town after the next chapter is posted, so I'll be able to binge when I get back, but I promise to comment as I go. It's the least I could do to show you my gratitude for taking us on this thrilling adventure!
-ns7
Amazing chapter... Oh, I'm not sure I want to know what Inara saw... what she DID... what they might have done to her....
Loved watching her take out Will, excellent! I do love an Inara that can take care of herself! And the way she couldn't get Mal out of her head, and how that was affecting her work... how she realized she was 'out of touch' with the Core fashions and how her thoughts kept drifting to Serenity.. then the realizatin that she didn't want to go!!! Everything... I just love reading your Inara!!
I can't wait for more!! I am seriously addicted to your writing!
You can't take the sky from me
And I too really like how you laced Inara's thoughts and feelings with hints of her past from before the time she joined Serenity, with all the vague notions of pain and manipulation! I really like how Inara is being shown as someone with deep-seated emotional issues stemming from something horrific in her past, since Mal and Inara are so similiar in their base traits of having the strength to carry on...but without healing fully.
And I really hope that rat bastard Will gets perforated by Ray for trying to rape Inara. It's getting off easy, but the f-tard deserves something like an Indian beauty mark (rather racist name for a headshot, I know) for his acts against the BDHs:(
BEB
Will got what was coming to him.
Thanks for sharing.
Inara's tour with Peter and her internal voice focusing on Mal was very well done.
Nor did she tell him how she’d had reason to worry about getting blood stains on it. That wasn’t a problem at most Core society events, only the ones Malcolm Reynolds attended.
-BWAHAHAHAHA !!!!
I also really like how she is missing Serenity and all of the crew and trying to convince herself that she doesn't need them.
Yay for Inara laying that guy out.
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