tushanshu | first verse ☯ video;

[ River's sitting in her suite in the Water, evidenced by the soft colours and natural materials in her background. She touches the screen carefully, teeth pinching her lower lip as though she doesn't know recording has started -- but then she starts speaking without changing anything, so maybe she does know. ]

High chance of improbability even in this 'Verse, can't go between-between-between. Even if you use orthogonal coordinates, meeting at right angles. Two wrongs to make a right, two rights to make a wrong, the graph is broken. Order of chelonii or testudines but even the largest can't hold a city. Can't check the book, no chapters on waking up in new places.

[ She seems briefly frustrated, whether at the improbability of her situation or merely her own inability to verify what the kedan told her is unclear. She hadn't had the opportunity to think on it much with being drafted into the bottle, with all that had followed that and now that she did, she was still no better equipped to explain anything. Her fingers tangle in a dingy chain around her neck, tugging at a small ring and charm that seem very tarnished. ]

I'm supposed to have a job.

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I know.

[ It's not said to be snotty but it's definitely something she's gleaned from her few weeks here. ]

They need him. They get shot... a lot.

Sounds like the kinda situation me and Elizabeth were in. Who's 'they'?

The crew of Serenity. A family that isn't blood.

They must live pretty dangerous lives, to be gettin' shot at a lot. Your brother is a doctor?

Yes. He's the very best... they called him a prodigy.

[ Ironically, for all the things River herself can do... she always thought her brother was brilliant. ]

Still, it's too bad he's not here with you. And the others, too.

[Booker assumes everyone would be happier on the turtle. He sure is.]

For now... maybe it will change. Inara was here.

[ She read back on the network as part of teaching herself about this place and found the many entries from the Companion. ]

Here but not gone, not from the ship.

What, you mean, like... in both places at once?

[ River shrugs, not able to explain it. ]

She was here but she wasn't gone from where she was. I would have noticed.

[ The last part is said with some emphasis, like it's important to make that point. ]

Damn. Wonder if the Luteces knew about that.

...They probably did. I already knew there was more than one of me in different worlds.

Parallels. If there's another River? Besides the old and the new.

There probably are more of you.

I was a martyr in one world. It was weird.

I wouldn't like that... you'd be gone. Then who would you be?

Still me, I suppose, just... dead.

I wouldn't recommend it, though - going to a world where you died. You get two sets of memories in your head, it's... It ain't fun.

But what if you already have other memories in your head?

Do you get headaches sometimes?

[Well, he's on the right track at least.]

Yes. All the time.

Simon says they're from the medicine.

Medicine? Mine're from the Tears. I guess we're not meant to hop between worlds, go figure.

[ Though "between worlds" is a phrase that's often used for planet hopping in the 'Verse, she knows the context is wrong. ]

Will you tell me? Not now but... later.

Sure, someday. Whenever you like. It's a pretty crazy story.

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