[Video] After Luke Siths out

[wrench_and_ruffles]

[Kaylee's trying very hard to stay calm. Stress is bad for the baby. Which really makes all this lousy timing.

So she's trying to deal with this entire situation by the method she's learned from many of her nearest and dearest.]

You know. My favourite thing about Verdana is all the stuff that happened in Mayfield that doesn't happen here. You could count on people to actually stay the same person from day to day. I promise, I am plenty grateful already, I didn't need the reminder.

[She keeps reminding herself that Luke and everybody else will be back to normal sooner or later. But it's not terribly comforting right now.]

I am too hormonal to deal with this.

[She nearly ends the transmission there, but then she remembers one more thing. Luke was supposed to pick things up on his way home from work. And now she's feeling even worse than before.]

Could... somebody pick me up some ginger and crackers? Please?

Comments

[wrench_and_ruffles]

Seems to be a common problem with shipfolk.

[Luke can run into the next five burning buildings and she won't even complain if he'll just be Luke]

[unofficial_ambassador]

I suppose all of us feel responsible in one way or another.

Do you want to talk about it?

[wrench_and_ruffles]

[Kaylee nods. With Inara, she does]

He scared me. He was so hurt and angry.

[unofficial_ambassador]

[She doesn't know him that well, but it's still surprising.]

He was angry with you?

[wrench_and_ruffles]

With the world, I think. But me too. Kept goin' on about how I'd left him.

[She shakes her head]

If he was always like that I would have.

[unofficial_ambassador]

And he doesn't remember anything.

[How does something like this happen.]

If this is a . . . temporal . . . thing, maybe Salvation's AI knows something about it.

[wrench_and_ruffles]

Remembers lots of things. Just nothin' that actually happened.

[Now that she mentions it]

Which does sound like somethin' she might know about.

[unofficial_ambassador]

There've been some strange - Do you know if he'd been seeing things earlier? Alternate timelines.

[wrench_and_ruffles]

He didn't say anythin'. And it's the sort of thing we would talk about, normally.

[unofficial_ambassador]

You'd have noticed, I think.

[She pours some of the drink into a mug and brings it over to Kaylee.]

I probably don't need to warn you it's hot.

[wrench_and_ruffles]

General idea with tea, most of the time.

[Iced tea being an obvious exception. But really she just watched Inara make it.]

I've gotten pretty good at noticin' weird stuff brewin', but this came outta nowhere from him.

[unofficial_ambassador]

Sometimes it doesn't really 'brew'. It just happens.