”That sounds agreeable.” River said agreeably. ”…I’m going to miss the bed most though.”

”It doesn’t bother you what Inara must’a got up to in here before us?” Kaylee teased.

”Why would it?” River asked, seemingly honestly not knowing.

”No real reason I guess.” Kaylee told her. It didn’t bother her either, she just wondered if maybe River could, um, see into the past or something, like she did into the future.

”You have funny ideas sometimes.” River told her, pushing her over onto her back and kissing her intently for a while before sighing and stopping, sitting up and back on her knees.

Kaylee blinked, feeling a little dazed and wishing River had kept going, despite how impractical it would have been. ”Girl could get addicted to you.” She said with a happy go lucky sort of smile as she got up to sitting and met River’s eyes again, that same intensity that seemed to only get better between them coming through plain and clear, telling Kaylee again just how right she’d been to fall in love with this woman.

River smiled. ”Likewise.” She replied simply.

Kaylee closed her eyes and sighed. ”Time to go be undertakers?” She put forward a little reluctantly.

”Are you sure we should? Inara needing us as she does?” River asked a little doubtfully.

”You don’t think we should?” Kaylee asked. ”It’s just, it sounded like Inara and the people with her had plenty of supplies, and we already started. Seems a shame not to finish. And anyway, I thought you wanted us to bury them? Or, you have one of those feelings a’yours? That we need to get going soon as possible?”

River shook her head. ”No feeling. Just thought maybe it was too sad, that’s all.”

”…We don’t have to, you know. It’s not like we really owe them anything. They did try to kill us, you may recall.” Kaylee put in, wanting to assuage River’s uneasy feelings if she could.

”There are no debts anywhere but in the stories we tell.” River said. She smiled a little then. ”It doesn’t matter. It just seemed so stark, the difference, and I feel too much… sometimes.”

”Yeah… I’m guessing maybe you do, don’t you?” Kaylee replied softly. ”Anyway, it’s up to you.”