Firefly - Inara
(fits into the ongoing thing somewhere but probably earlier. what is time or order.)
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Inara breathes in, breathes out. Enforced isolation is hard for some of the crew. She knows it’s hard for Kaylee, who loves people almost as much as she loves puppies (and boy does that girl love puppies). Inara doesn’t mind it.
She does mind looking death in the face on a daily basis. She knows it makes her selfish, but it’s hard, when confronted with it so bluntly, without the grace of comfortable passing or even proper funeral rites, to hold onto her sense of calm. It’s hard not to consider time, and how little of it she’s got left.