Tangled

Rated: PG

Category: Drabble, River POV. Mal/Inara implied.

Spoilers: Those Left Behind comics.

Summary: River told Inara to "let the ball of yarn go." Why?

Note: Written for the "End of the Year Crazy Fest" on Whedonland.

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Ever play with a piece of string?

A long one you can loop and tie and knot?

Isn't it funny how no matter how careful you are, it always ends up a tangled mess when you're done?

And isn't it odd how if, by some miracle, it's not, and you put it away somewhere all careful and straight, then when you find it again, it's twisted itself up so no manner of work can get it undone?

You fret and you yank and you curse, but it holds fast.

There's only one answer then.

"Let the ball of yarn go."