With Marco safe and possibly a new job on the horizon, Eva's in fairly upbeat spirits, despite some concern about the crew members away on the mission. Which means she's game for some exercise in the Sensoriums.

Back on Earth, before Stacy, she took up private rock climbing classes for a brief period of time, to conquer any potential fear of heights she might develop after falling off that cliff. Her physical therapist hated it (as did her shoulder), but it makes her feel powerful and controlled to do. She can always do with more of those emotions.

She has Sensorium Elton John as her belayer as she works her way up a finger-pocket route.

Reavers.

Of course there were Reavers on the ship. There were teenagers who turned into monsters and viruses that made people crazy and clocks that made people age backward. Why not Reavers?

Following his announcement on the omnicomm, Wash had spent most of his days shut up tight in Serenity. Oh, he wasn't about to have the General come drag him out by his ear, so he still left the ship once a day, but in that time he went straight to the Sensoriums and straight back to the ship.

He was not taking any chances. Miranda was the last time in his life he wanted to see Reavers. Ever.

It was starting to wear on him. Not the close quarters of Serenity - he knew ever door and every switch on that ship almost as well as Kaylee did. No, the ship was the good part.

The bad part was the lack of company, the constant feeling of being at loose ends. Wash paced, more often than not, walking from the silent cockpit to the empty cargo bay to the deserted kitchen and back again.

Needless to say, he could use some company.

Arhu was tired of having those empty moments sitting at the back of his mind. Maybe it didn't bother others on the ship, but he was a wizard - if he didn't know exactly who he was, then his Name wasn't right, and his magic would define him as something other than what he was. If you said your name wrong in a spell, then that would become your name, and whatever was said wrong would become true.

So the knowledge that he didn't know something was really, really important. But even more than that...

He wanted to find out what had happened to him, and whether his sister was alright. And Urruah, too.

Arhu paged through his Omnicomm to send a message, and then headed for the Sensoriums. He'd find the answers one way or another, if he had to send his Eye straight into Stacy's programmed mind to do it.

The sensoriums were often used to recreate people's homes--this meant familiar Earth imagery for most. But Devlin had grown up in a space colony, and Earth had been a very new and dangerous place for him at first.

So now, he wanted to show Hikari his old home. The small buildings and streets lined with trees looked like any neighborhood on Earth, but the sky overhead was covered with a transparent biodome. Outside were swirling golden clouds and streaks of lightning from the Dragon Storm. The gold clouds, lightning, and high winds outside the colony were just as familiar to him as blue skies and sunshine were to anyone from Earth.

"What do you think?" he asked.