A/N: Does anyone know of a site that I can find some Chinese phrases to use and if anyone interested in beta that would be great too. THANKS

They crew of Serenity sat around their dinning table. Mal figured the whole crew needed to be up for this tale. Inara had made tea to help relax everyone in Leandra's presence. But it didn't really help.

River kept watching the woman.

Mal cleared his throat and said, "Well are one of you goram woman gonna talk or what?"

Leandra turned her eyes towards Reynolds. He watched as she coolly appraised him for the second time. He felt a bit naked the way she was looking at him. She said, "Do you want me to tell it? Cause it isn't really my story."

Inara spoke, "Tell them as much as you think they should know."

No one spoke. They looked at each other. Finally River said, "Leandra Greek meaning lion woman. Eyes strip you down to bone and see everything. Estimated age in mid twenties. Reflexes .08 seconds slower then mine. Calculate risk high. Like me but not."

All eyes turned to Leandra and looked at her with a mix of interest and fear because of River's cryptic statement.

Leandra looks at River with compassion. "Yes little one like you but not."

Leandra and Inara's eye met something passed between the two women. Inara finally said, "She's my father's daughter."

Kaylee piped, "Doesn't make that make her your sister?"

Leandra simply said, "Yes, yes it does."

Mal snarled, "Will you two knock off the drama and get on with explaining why there was a strange and well armed woman in your shuttle."

Leandra replied, "My, my aren't we an impatient man." She gave a raise eyebrow to Inara. "Well the short story is that we are half sisters and we both trained with the Guild. One in the art of love and the other in the art of death."

Zoe spoke with outrage in her voice, "An assassin."

Leandra flicked her eyes towards the female warrior, "Yes but not so much in the last five years."

Mal jumped up from the table and pointed a gun at her, "You're here to kill Inara! Well hell if I'm gonna let you."

River said, "No not here to kill but to save."

Inara said quietly, "Mal put the gun down. If she was here to kill me it would be done."

Simon quietly said, "What I want to know is what you mean that you are like River."

Leandra smiled fiercely, "Let's just say that I'm the prototype for who and what your sister is but where she can read your mind I can just break it."