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[auxocardia]

❝ well, my sister's a ship. we had a complicated childhood. ❞

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[auxocardia]

[ Once upon a time, Simon had thought he'd never get used to places like this. Hot, dusty bars, lit as though by a nervous vampire so that until his eyes adjusted from the oppressively bright outside he'd forever be tripping over stools invisible in the gloom. Gruff and generally irritable patrons looking and in many ways acting like part of the furniture. So many opportunities to inadvertently earn himself a bloody nose that the very walls seemed to dare him to look at them the wrong way.

But now they're as a second home. Alright, maybe not quite a second home - he's been a part of Serenity's crew long enough (assuming the captain is in charitable enough of a mood to allow him that designation) that the ship, at least, is. These excursions feel more like a summer home. He knows that he'll probably never fit in here the way they do, but at least he doesn't feel nearly so much of a creeping need to get out anymore.

He laughs at something Kaylee said and wipes off berry-stained fingers on his pants. There's a drink in his other hand, but they've been talking more than they have been drinking - all the alcohol's managed to do so far is loosen him up a little. Well, the alcohol and Kaylee. ]

Oh, [ he interjects, eyebrows rising as he remembers something. ] I actually found something you might like. At the market.

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Look at you! [Kaylee chirps, nudging him with her shoulder just the tiniest bit.] Wipin' your hands off on your fine pants- you'll soon be covered in stains like the rest of us! [He was less of an outsider now than he had been before. Significantly so. But Kaylee always would go out of her way to defend him against the others- he was still the easiest mark of them all.]

Mr. Hoity-Toity-Prim-An'-Proper's leavin' the building!

[She takes a drink, and then promptly does a double take.] You what-? You found somethin'? For me? Oh, Simon! You shouldn't have!