"Why did you leave?"
"Why didn't you ask me not to?"
You didn't mean to come in here again today; but here you are all the same.
The smell of incense is still strong and you don't think that it will ever entirely fade. You're not sure if you're sad or happy about this fact.
You heard Kaylee crying in the engine room last night. It makes you feel guilty but you know she'll be smiling again before long. Kaylee can't help but to be cheerful and optimistic.
You wish the same was true for you.
Instead, you haunt a shuttle that is now completely devoid of all her personality. And you watch a video capture so often that you know every second by heart. Every movement and every word. Every inflection in her speech.
And you think of all the things you could have said and never did. The things that maybe, just maybe, might have kept her on Serenity. With you.