Here on a rec from _hylegen_. That... made me ache. Beautiful Inara voice.
And I loved Mal in this too - for once not saying something stupid, actually caring, and it being all that much worse for her. *wibbles*
I adored this description:
This is getting hard to bear, all of this, the back and forth, the physical dance of having to stand up to him while speaking, having to meet his eyes to show that she’s as big and strong and tough a soldier as he is, even though she’s just a soft woman, the lying, all of it. She’s just so very tired. She sinks to the bed, stripped, and turns away from him under pretense of checking the fastenings of one of her bags, but then even the pretense is too much, and her hands fall to the mattress and her head bows because the weight of life is just too heavy for her tiny body to bear.
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Date: 2006-04-09 12:38 am (UTC)And I loved Mal in this too - for once not saying something stupid, actually caring, and it being all that much worse for her. *wibbles*
I adored this description:
This is getting hard to bear, all of this, the back and forth, the physical dance of having to stand up to him while speaking, having to meet his eyes to show that she’s as big and strong and tough a soldier as he is, even though she’s just a soft woman, the lying, all of it. She’s just so very tired. She sinks to the bed, stripped, and turns away from him under pretense of checking the fastenings of one of her bags, but then even the pretense is too much, and her hands fall to the mattress and her head bows because the weight of life is just too heavy for her tiny body to bear.