Inara watched with interest as Tarzan jingle the earring around. He seemed very fascinated by it. His expression brought to mind Kaylee's face whenever she bit into a strawberry, or that time that Kaylee had gone to a ball, wearing a huge, floofy pink dress. Inara couldn't help but smile at those memories, and at Tarzan's simple wonderment at the earring.
"They were, yes. By a jewelry maker on a core planet called Laxmi." She reached up and unhooked the other earring from her ear. She turned it over and moved the intricately designed metal ball to the side, causing the bells attached to the bottom of it to tinkle merrily. She leaned in closer to Tarzan so he could see. "See, here? All the way inside? The soldered the hook of this bell here to the inner top of the outer doom, so that it would move, but it wouldn't fall off. It's an old technique, from Earth-That-Was. Or so I'm told."
She held the earring out to Tarzan, in case he wanted to play with both of them. "Do you know how you ended up in the jungle with the gorillas?" she asked. "Or is that something you were left unaware of?"
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"They were, yes. By a jewelry maker on a core planet called Laxmi." She reached up and unhooked the other earring from her ear. She turned it over and moved the intricately designed metal ball to the side, causing the bells attached to the bottom of it to tinkle merrily. She leaned in closer to Tarzan so he could see. "See, here? All the way inside? The soldered the hook of this bell here to the inner top of the outer doom, so that it would move, but it wouldn't fall off. It's an old technique, from Earth-That-Was. Or so I'm told."
She held the earring out to Tarzan, in case he wanted to play with both of them. "Do you know how you ended up in the jungle with the gorillas?" she asked. "Or is that something you were left unaware of?"