Mal once again had to venture a little further away from his usual dives. He'd been banned for a week from one for fighting, even though he insisted the fight was not his fault. The word could be so unfair. It wasn't his fault that his opponent had too much in him and too big a mouth for his own good. So he was stuck in a fancier bar. Too fancy for his own liking really. Feeling very out of place with a gun not so hidden on his leg in a holster. He just made an irritated face into his drink and muttered something in Chinese that caused the bar tender to look up in curiosity.
"Nothing nothing." Mal insisted and waved him off. Nevermind that he'd called him a frog humping son of a bitch, nor that the place was as bad as Central Planet bars. Everyone acting higher and mightier then they ought to because they had the money to show off. Money made the world go round, Mal knew that no matter what rock they were on. He needed to obtain some more soon. The fancy gun he'd ripped off the museum wouldn't sell easy even on the black market. It'd taken some doing. He was going to need to hit lower.
The thought of that alone made him twitch. He wasn't a criminal. At least that wasn't how he started out. What had he wanted before he'd been shipped off to war? He couldn't even remember that far now. The war had gone sour after he realized they weren't worth even saving. He'd lost all hope, all faith in things that needed a miracle. Miracles were for suckers who bought into hope that everything would go shiny just because you were a good person.
He tried to be a good person. Tried to be a friend. Where did it get him? Was he back in the skies yet? He sipped at his scotch and winced at the burning sensation it caused. Looking up as the girl in maroon joined the few lonely souls at the bar and he raised an eyebrow at her. She was pretty enough, yet no man followed behind. "Welcome to the end of the world." He said jokingly as the bar was located at the end of the restaurant. It was a bad pun maybe, considering where they were headed in their possible future. But it made him smirk all the same.