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Looks like someone decided it's autumn, even though it ain't autumn 'cause we're not spinning round a sun and don't have seasons. Anyone got an idea why the Admiral thinks we all need t'be showered with dead plants?

The way I see it, there ain't any use for raining down magic leaves outta nowhere except to crunch when you walk on 'em. Seems we might as well get some use outta them. Any of you folks ever build bonfires back home? Wouldn't be too hard to rake up a pile and light it in the CES. Don't sound like a bad time, specially not if someone saved any of the rotgut from that last history-time break. [Duo? He's looking at you.]

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[Yeah, she's mostly just been observing because very little is amusing, here, and Mal and Zev have wandered into amusing territory.]

Has anyone ever told you you're terrible with women?

That ain't true. I do all right talkin' to you, don't I?

[She is putting on her best innocent but interested face, because Zev was right, sort of. He gets uncertain, and nervous, and Natasha doesn't find it attractive, but it is easy to use.

These are wiles, Mal, run.]

I didn't realize you were interested, Captain.

[Oh, no you don't. It's one thing from Zev, who was a perfect stranger and thus more difficult to evade without coming off as insulting, but from Natasha wiles are just low and he will not stand for them.]

I'm not. You're a very beautiful woman, an' all that, but you're too much like my wife.

Your wife? Does she know about us? I'd hate to be a homewrecker.

[Okay now she's just being dry about because the corner of her mouth is twitching.]

You haven't mentioned her.

Doubt you could be more'f one than her.

[Literally. Not that it quite counts, given how many men Saffron's married at this point. It wasn't like their marriage was valid.]

Yeah, well, guess you could say we're separated.