Bizui, nin hen butitie hundan – shut up you incosiderate jerk!

Gou shi – dog shit

Dragon laying down

It's been awhile, downright quiet. Not a damned thing popping up that needed attending to. The fight circuit paid well, but was drying up on this rinky dink planet. There's more elsewhere, off world, just being able to go from place to place without buying your own ship or buying tickets to every event, seemed to much of a hassle.

She ran into this one guy who sold passage on his ship and there was an extra shuttle available for rent. Going that very evening to check it out, since Capt. Reynolds needed to be off world in a few hours time, she found it to be very satisfactory for her needs. There was no need for her to go to core planets and for some reason he wanted to avoid them and the areas she did need to go were either on planets he touched down at or did business in the sector of. She came back later that night with a small load of stuff to get underway.

"Not a whole lot of stuff." Mal noted.

"Like to carry light, never know what you'll run into."

"Well breakfast ain't for another 4 hours, Kaylee is making it."

"Kaylee?"

"That's our mechanic, you'll meet everyone then."

Zoe watched their new border walk off before approaching the Captain.

"I still don't think it's a good idea sir, having someone we don't know on board. Especially with us having two fugitives, what if she finds out?"

"Relax you, It's all shiny. Since the alliance dropped their names off the wanted list, their not likely to be seen as outlaws."

"That's what bothers me. Why all of a sudden did they stop chasing after them?"

"Will you stop worrying about it? What could go wrong?" Zoe rolled her eyes at the comment already bracing for the proverbial go gou shi to hit the fan.

The new renter looked around again, it defiantly looked better then that run down hobble she had been renting. She had a good feeling about this exchange, hell maybe its time to splurge and redecorate living quarters to taste. Even with the excitement she still managed to crash out in the little cot.

The dining facility was a mass of commotion, several voices all yammering on about one thing or another when she came in. Coffee being the top priority now.

Jayne looked at the stranger and then at Mal, motioned with his in her direction in an agitated way.

"Oh right, Crew, I want you to meet Miss Cara Fale." She looked up from her mug as those in there looked back. She took an open spot by the Captain and nursed the hot contents.

"Not hungry?"

"Of course she is." Kaylee plopped down a portion in front of Cara. She looked at the food and the woman sitting next to her and sighed then returned back to her coffee.

"Um, hi, I'm Kaylee. I do the"

"Yeah, I know, the mechanic."

She looked puzzled, she didn't remember running into her before.

Cara motioned to the Mal, "He told me."

"OOOOOOHHHHH. Sleep comfy then?"

It was way too early in the morning for this kind of cheerful, or this much talking, so she just awarded her with a snort.

Kaylee looked a bit sad that her new friend was not very talkative.

Mal took the hint and decided to spill the beans on their new guest so that she can stick to waking up.

"Cara here is in the fight circuit, she's renting the other shuttle so that she can get to more of the events."

Sudden realization flitted across Wash's face, "You mean, wait, your Cara Fale? Wow. Heard of you in the bet circuit." He continued on to his wife, "There was this one match"

"Hell, maybe be able to take down you little man, guys like me she don't stand a chance." He smirked at her with his boast.

'Jerk' She got up and filled the mug again, with the stuff that resembled more like mud then it did as caffeine and left.

"Bizui, nin hen butitie hundan!" Kaylee looked at the retreating form, Jayne could be, well, he could be just what she had just said sometimes. She pushed her food around somemore and got up to empty her plate and find Cara.

She found her on the walk overhanging the rear of the cargo hold.

"Sorry about that, Jayne isn't very polite or nice." Her comment got her a grin.

"So you fight?" Kaylee didn't know what else to ask or say, since Cara hasn't been really with the giving up of info.

Cara leaned back on the rail, "Ya know you're damn lucky I think you're ok or else I would have left ya talking to yourself on this walk." Kaylee shyed back. "Not you, I just don't do to well in the morning. Afternoon is more my speed. See ya then."

Kaylee was elated at finding out she didn't have anything against her. She went back to the previous deck so she can do some work on the engines.