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Synchronicity by Zulu (R)
Fandom: FIREFLY
Pairing: Kaylee/Simon, River/Inara, Inara/Kaylee
Length: about 3,000 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
queenzulu
Author Website: her AO3 Profile
Why this must be read: This is a post-BDM piece mainly focused on the shifts in crew relationships after that point. I think Zulu does a really wonderful job of making those relationship dynamics compelling and complex, and of making the changes feel like they grow very organically from canon. Zulu's truly exquisite River-voice is also well worth noting; it's not easy to render the full complicated blend of River's genius, instability, youth, and painful clairvoyance, but Zulu does it all justice. On top of that, and perhaps most of all, I love the gorgeous lyrical language that underlies so many of the lines.
"How long?" River asks--how long has Kaylee loved Inara? And because River's a girl now, instead of the Alliance's chimera, Kaylee answers.
"I don't know when I started," she says. She doesn't try to parcel it into pieces. It's all part of the whole, figured in duration and depth. It's as uncertain as measuring direction and velocity both at once. Kaylee loves. That's all.
Inara loves the same way. "Stupidly," she calls it, "flighty as a bird."
Like a goose, River thinks. Long necks twined, heads tucked beneath feathers, listening to the wisdom in their mate's heart. Winging through the skies of the world, together. Alone, when one dies. Like Zoe without Wash, migrating because the lines of force call her, not because she expects to find anything when the flying's done.
Linear causation is one of the first myths. On Earth that was, Book storied her once, God made first one, and then another woman, to ease the first man's loneliness. Book says that was the beginning. God is the prime mover, He is the first cause. River said to him only, "That was a prior eventuality," and told him of the loci of moments, of the curve of time and space.
There's no such thing as beginnings. Kaylee didn't start loving Inara. She only does.
So when River leaves the engine room, with Simon's timetable calling her to the infirmary, she goes to Inara instead. Serenity's not so large that Simon won't look there, before he gives up searching. River lets her sweater fall, and then her dress, and Inara smiles the way she would if this was love.
Inara's kisses hold all her secrets, and River finds happiness drowning in them. God's first woman was of the earth, and ripe with desire. The second was of flesh and ate fruit for the love of its taste. The first man sent them both away from him, for a time. What Book's stories don't say is who comforted them then. Who else did they have, but each other?
Synchronicity
Pairing: Kaylee/Simon, River/Inara, Inara/Kaylee
Length: about 3,000 words
Author on LJ:
queenzuluAuthor Website: her AO3 Profile
Why this must be read: This is a post-BDM piece mainly focused on the shifts in crew relationships after that point. I think Zulu does a really wonderful job of making those relationship dynamics compelling and complex, and of making the changes feel like they grow very organically from canon. Zulu's truly exquisite River-voice is also well worth noting; it's not easy to render the full complicated blend of River's genius, instability, youth, and painful clairvoyance, but Zulu does it all justice. On top of that, and perhaps most of all, I love the gorgeous lyrical language that underlies so many of the lines.
"How long?" River asks--how long has Kaylee loved Inara? And because River's a girl now, instead of the Alliance's chimera, Kaylee answers.
"I don't know when I started," she says. She doesn't try to parcel it into pieces. It's all part of the whole, figured in duration and depth. It's as uncertain as measuring direction and velocity both at once. Kaylee loves. That's all.
Inara loves the same way. "Stupidly," she calls it, "flighty as a bird."
Like a goose, River thinks. Long necks twined, heads tucked beneath feathers, listening to the wisdom in their mate's heart. Winging through the skies of the world, together. Alone, when one dies. Like Zoe without Wash, migrating because the lines of force call her, not because she expects to find anything when the flying's done.
Linear causation is one of the first myths. On Earth that was, Book storied her once, God made first one, and then another woman, to ease the first man's loneliness. Book says that was the beginning. God is the prime mover, He is the first cause. River said to him only, "That was a prior eventuality," and told him of the loci of moments, of the curve of time and space.
There's no such thing as beginnings. Kaylee didn't start loving Inara. She only does.
So when River leaves the engine room, with Simon's timetable calling her to the infirmary, she goes to Inara instead. Serenity's not so large that Simon won't look there, before he gives up searching. River lets her sweater fall, and then her dress, and Inara smiles the way she would if this was love.
Inara's kisses hold all her secrets, and River finds happiness drowning in them. God's first woman was of the earth, and ripe with desire. The second was of flesh and ate fruit for the love of its taste. The first man sent them both away from him, for a time. What Book's stories don't say is who comforted them then. Who else did they have, but each other?
Synchronicity
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