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Doin' a little magic [open]

Kaylee is in the Sensorium, doing her favourite thing in the world: working on Serenity's engine. The whole place has turned into the interior of her ship (without any of the "crew" - that would be too weird), and she's tucked away in the engine room, fixing things that need fixing.

It's not the same, because she doesn't sound quite right, but Kaylee doesn't mind too much. It's enough to keep her from dying of homesickness.

If anyone would care to wander in, just follow the banging sounds up the stairs and through the mess back to the engine room. She won't mind company.

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That gets a bright laugh out of her, making her nose crinkle up a bit. "Sometimes in English, too. Just grew up speakin' both, though most folk don't use Chinese as much. Well, not where I grew up, anyhow. Some worlds, folk don't hardly speak English at all if they can help it."

She tilts her head and grins wickedly at him. "So do you always change your mind about what your name is, or do you sometimes just stick with one?"

Tim grins back at her. "Usually I stick with the one. You can call me Tim. Robin's kind of a professional name." He motions to the mask over his eyes and the utility belt. "But I'd rather not go the whole time we're here without hearing my real name, you know?" He gives her a wry grin. "Plus--there's really not anyone around to be hurt by the fact that you know both."

Bruce is a million miles away, and his actual family... yeah. It doesn't really matter much anymore who knows that Tim is Robin.

"Well, even if there were, I'm good at keepin' a secret," she says with a grin, and taps the side of her nose. "Gotta be, line 'a work we're in back home."

She crouches down and starts tweaking something or other, but glances up to him briefly between tweaks. "So... d'you always wear a mask? Got some sorta medical problem, or just lookin' mysterious?"

He laughs. "The mask? Oh--it definitely makes me look cool." He reaches up and peels it off carefully, showing Kaylee his perfectly normal face and bright blue eyes. "Not exactly the Phantom of the Opera, huh? My friends used to call me Mystery Boy.

"So--what line of work are you in? I mean--aside from the obvious." He motions toward the engine and the work she's doing there.

Oooo, he's cute. The blue eyes really do it for her, with that dark hair. Real pretty-boy, which she likes.

We don't discuss how long it's been since she had anyone in her bunk. It's been too long.

"Crime," she says cheerfully. "Smuggling, mostly. Cap'n ain't a mercenary or anything, we just move things around for money without lettin' on to the Alliance."

She likes their crime, for the most part. It makes life interesting, at least.

Both of Tim's eyebrows go up in surprise. "Oh yeah? What's the Alliance?"

"Government, runs the 'verse," Kaylee says with a shrug. "Or our little corner of it. Ain't much good, though. There was a war, 'bout six years back. My daddy fought in it, I was just a kid. Cap'n, too. The border planets wanted to govern themselves, but the gŏushĭ bùrú Alliance didn't like that. We lost."

She makes a face, then shrugs. "They'll fall apart one day, bet you anything, how they're actin'."

Tim nods, making a thoughtful noise. "I don't have much to do with government in my universe--I'm about to turn down a job working for them, actually." He gives her a wry smile. "But I guess I can't really judge too much on the smuggling thing. I work outside the law, too. I'm a vigilante." He grins and holds up the mask. "Thus the secret identity and the Mystery Boy thing."

"Ooo, really?" That gets a grin with a distinct hint of friendly teasing. "So you go save damsels from the big bad villains, huh? Bet you're popular with all the ladies."

Tim laughs. "Damsels, helpless men, and children," he says. "And I'm very popular with the ladies. It's the cape. Chicks dig the cape."

"Also the mask," Kaylee points out. "Gives you an... air of mystery and all. We girls like the mysterious types." Grin.

Yes, she's flirting. Did you expect any less of her?

Tim grins back, blushing a little. "Well, you only say that because you've seen how cute and charming I am."

"Ain't no way I know to cover up charming with a little mask," Kaylee points out teasingly. "Cute though... you could've been hideously deformed, I would'a had no idea."

"I guess I could have," Tim laughs. "Lucky for me that I'm not. It would make my unmasked life very complicated."

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