No answer.

She sighed and looked up at the fabric laced ceiling that, along with the rest of the shuttle it seemed, had seen’d more orderly days. ”We crashed.” She spoke to herself. ”Zì xuán wǒ, jiào wǒ yīgè mùyáng rén, what a day.” She breathed and remembered. Opal Shire was a world about as far out as you’d likely to go. It had some very well-off patrons though, the kind with their own ideas about how a society should be kept. ’Passive aggressive neigh-sayin’’ as the Captain’d called it. ’Land of the irritatin’ people’ She’d thought was a more like title for it than it had. Everyone givin’ you grief when you didn’t act proper is what. But they’d been contracted to do a job, sheep had been needed and sheep they’d brought. Sheep were a good deal more botherless than cows, and they’d all be much happy about that.

Irritatin’ people aside though, it was one of the nicer colony worlds you’d ever like to find out here. Not near as shiny as one of those Alliance worlds mind, but well kept and growing with a fair shopping district. The logistics of it was that the other shuttle had been contracted out to a local land barren for his own use while they’d been there. The rest were busy with the sheep and all, and Inara had taken a client in the governor of the colony, ’a rich former industrialist with his head in the clouds’ as she’d been told. And knowing Serenity was in need of some parts and such, and seeing an opportunity to sneak in a little shopping for frivolous things in the process, Kaylee had asked Inara (whom she knew would not be using her shuttle for her activities with the governor) if she could give her a ride over and then use the shuttle to go into town and pick up supplies. River had, strangely enough, asked to go along with her. And though she was still kind of nervous and unsure around the girl since what had happened on Adelei Niska’s space station a while back, Kaylee hadn’t seen the harm in it. Scary girl or not, she had saved her life an’ all. Kind of makes a’body indebted, don’t it?