042 [Video] Just a man who went to the edge of nothing

[only_fell]

[Inara is standing at the window of her apartment looking out on the city below. Her robe is gathered just off her shoulders and her hair is short. The video is obviously intentional but it takes her a moment to speak.]They remind me of reavers. River once said they were made of rage and that's what this reminds me of. An entire city made of people

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[notverypriestly]

Babe?

...Did you guys try to shave them for clothing? Because I bet those clothes were mondo expensive.

[only_fell]

I'm fine, Priestly.

They were a bit less...woolly. I was referring more to the people infected but the sheep count as well.

voice

[sings4dragons]

Reavers?

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[only_fell]

They're human...or they used to be. Unknowingly the Alliance created them by treating them with medicine that was supposed to weed out the aggressive gene in humans. In a small percentage of the population it increased that aggressiveness to the point that they didn't feel pain; that all they could feel was rage.

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[sings4dragons]

That's more than a little disturbing.

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[only_fell]

Seeing it in person is even more so. Although I think I prefer full of rage to nothing at all. The other percentage ended up dead. All of them; an entire world. It turns out when a person no longer has a desire to fight they slowly lose the desire to do anything else, including breathe.

[nogoodpeople]

Under the circumstances, I'm not surprised about the outpouring of rage lately.

[only_fell]

Neither am I. Roaming, rabid sheep tend to incite it.

Are you well, Tseng?

[nogoodpeople]

I am, fortunately enough.

[only_fell]

I'm pleased to hear it. This has been quite an unsettling curse to say the least.