A/N: Not much more to say from last time...
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Discord Symphony: Everything's Fine
Run
There are things here she's never felt before, never had reason to feel. Sure, she's been scared, but never in this way. In the way that one look from him could send her spinning.
And so she tries to avert her eyes all the time. She knows that he knows, but she looks away nonetheless. But today it's just not working. When the Captain's gaze pierces into her own, it's like staring out into the black; open and sparkling with the endless unknown. As point after point of electric glow send shivers down her spine and sparks warmth down to her belly, she tries to break the gaze. Look at the blue above, the field surrounding them. Anything but those unfathomable eyes.
The answer comes in a spurt of energy, bare feet pushing against the dirt. And then she's flying through the tall grass. Not sure whether she's laughing or crying, winning or losing. She fights herself over whether or not she should look back, but it doesn't take her long to lose the battle. And he's right there behind her.
Suddenly, she stops and looks at the world. Spinning and spinning and spinning, and yet everything is so still.
Mal comes to a loping stop beside her, panting slightly. Watches as River touches the tips of her fingers to the grass, watches her eyes open wide, wonder spreading across her face.
"What's gotten into you now?"
This time when she looks into his eyes, and the fear is still there, she smiles. She feels that electric warmth buzzing in the air around her. "Everything's just… shiny."
His smile is bemused as those eyes of his roam over her face. Unrelenting, understanding, like the empty open; new and bright.