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Mal breathed in deeply before entered the hut and paused when his head was about to collide with a hanging glass jar. He didn’t know what it was inside, just knew to avoid it. There were several more jars hanging from the beams, the glass reflected the light from the candles, set on various tables. Mal tried to ignore the musty odor of the place, probably from damp wood. There was also the scent of burned wax, strange spices and other things he could not quite identify.
“Kaylee be careful,” Simon cautioned after he also nearly hit his head on one of the hanging jars.
“It’s a jar,” Kaylee brushed back her bangs as she and Zoë followed the doctor. “I wonder if it has dried flowers or spices or,” she blinked when examined it’s contents. “Eyeballs.” She walked over to another one. “This one has bugs.” She made her way to a third. “And this has.” Her forehead furrowed when she studied its contents. “Frog’s feet?”
“Hello?” Malcolm called out. He tried to find the mystery tea llama or whatever she was called.
A movement from the back caught his eye. A woman dressed in a long and raggedy gown approached him “Malcolm Reynolds.” Her hair was kept in long dreads and she had tattooed her face with spots. Her mouth was smeared with a dark lipstick, or some kind of makeup. “You have journeyed from a great distance.” She smiled at him, exposing gray teeth. Malcolm cannot remember a time when he craved a toothbrush as much as he did now.
“That I did miss-“
“Tia Dalma,” Zoë finished for him.
“You are not here with your entire crew?” Tia asked, noting the absence of Jayne, Inara and River.
“One is guarding the row boat and the others are in the main boat,” Malcolm explained. He was glad he made Jayne stay with the smaller boat. Tia’s place would have made him uneasy and would have shot off his mouth, he couldn’t tell with River, but feared she may have gone through one of her episodes and with Inara he would have had to endure her smug knowledge of other cultures.
“You don’t need to explain,” Tia said as she approached Simon and Kaylee. The doctor stood in front of Kaylee. “You two have a great future together.”
“We do?” Kaylee smiled. “Will we have a big wedding and children and a place where Simon can have a medical practice and I have a mechanic shop right next to it?” She grew starry eyed for a second.
“I cannot expand on that thought, don’t want to have to much telling of the future, although you live in it.”
She was just as strange as River, except in the girl’s case he could understand her. “Yeah, we were told you know where my ship is.”
“The one that flies, the one you have named Serenity.” Tia said.
“That’s her,” Mal’s smile faded. “Where is she?”
“To find her you need to find Jack Sparrow.”
“I thought you were the one who knew where she was.”
Tia’s smile disappeared. “I know how you can find her, not where it is, and to find this ship you need to find Jack Sparrow.”
“Where is he?” Zoe asked.
“You can find him at World’s End.”
“And where is that?” Malcolm tried to hide how irritated he felt from his voice.
“Before I tell you I must inform you of something. Where do you think you are and what year is it?”
“What do you mean?”
“Answer the question,” she frowned.
“We think we are on some backwater border planet with a nice ocean and decides to get off on naming itself after Earth that was and the year is 2519.”
She shook her head. “This is Earth that is and the year is 1760.”
Malcolm blinked. “What?”
“That’s impossible,” Simon stated.
“1760,” Kaylee repeated. “That’s the exact same number.”
“Same number as what?” Malcolm turned to her.
“The same number as the one on Jonas’s machine.”
“Jayne was playing with it,” Zoe said. “Tried to hide it from me.”
“No,” Mal shook his head. “No, no, this can’t be happening.”
“Jonas built a time machine,” Simon stared into Mal’s eyes. “That’s impossible.”
“Years ago we would have thought people who could read thoughts and a drug that created barbaric space zombies would have been impossible,” Zoe told him.
“How the hell am I going to find this World’s End?” Mal raised up his hands in despair. “And where is World’s End?”
“Have you been to the far east?” Tia Dalma asked.
“I live it,” Mal snapped and didn’t care that he did. “How can we be sure you are telling us the truth?”
“Captain?” Kaylee asked in a cautious tone.
“Jonas had barely tested the gorram thing. Stuff only got a few weeks in the past and future.”
“Do you know where you are?” Tia Dalma placed her hands on her hips. “You clearly know where you are not.”
“Sir,” Zoe grabbed onto his arm. “Try to calm yourself,” she turned to Tia
Dalma. “We need to know how to get to the Far East, considering where and when we are.”
“You could sail with the ship that I provided for you.”
“You made sure that ship was waiting for us?”
Tia nodded. “And the items you rely on most.”
“We also rely on my ship,” Mal approached her, glaring straight into her eyes. “Why couldn’t you have Serenity waiting for us?”
The strange woman grabbed his shoulders. “It is best you don’t get on my bad side, Malcolm Reynolds. I provided you with what I can.”
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Tia Dalma belongs to Disney
Malcolm, Zoe, Kaylee, Simon, Jayne, River, and Inara belong to Joss
 Spacebabie76 · Tue Oct 24, 2006 @ 04:41am · 0 Comments |
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