Kaylee was a little speechless. ”How’d you know to say that?” She asked as soft as a breath.

River shrugged a little. ”Just knew.” Was all she said.

”Can you… read my mind or something?” She asked.

”Don’t think so.” River replied.

”I’m thinking of a number between one and ten…” She started.

”Nine.” River replied.

Kaylee’s eye widened. ”If that’s not mind readin’, what is?” Kaylee asked.

”I don’t think it’s mind reading if I just know you very well.” River told her, a little confusion in her voice. ”Well, maybe not as much as I want to know you, but still, the principle holds.”

”And you can see the future sometimes.” Kaylee provided.

”That too, kind of.” River conceded with a little a smile, the emotions behind which Kaylee couldn’t quite put her finger on, so she moved down and kissed her. Just briefly.

”I guess it doesn’t really matter. Whatever the truth of you is, it wouldn’t make much difference. I’d still be hopeless in love with you, wouldn’t I?” She told her.

”Even if I’d put you under a magic spell like a witch from mythology?” River asked playfully.

”Well, you didn’t, did you?” Kaylee dared.

River laughed. ”I deny all knowledge of witchcraft. The broom in my closet is only meant for sweeping.”

Kaylee laughed too and kissed her and lay down at her shoulder with a sigh. ”So, I guess what we have to do is bury the rest of the Reavers, get our stuff together, plan out the trip, and then head out… what, tomorrow morning, I’m thinking?” She put forward, thinking through it logically in her mind. She wasn’t exactly expert at long hikes through unfamiliar territory, but she knew enough from her time growing up on Isis to know that you just didn’t up and go on one, spur of the moment like. Not if you were fond of livin’. They’d want to see if they could chart their course at all (the shuttle should have nav records that might be able to help, if the records survived the crash and if she could coax them from the shuttle’s databanks), get their bearings, plan what they’d take with them and all, then get a good night’s rest and set off.