climate

g | no warnings apply

"Why don't you stay here?"

Inara laughs, softly. "I couldn't work here. There's only a few people here who can afford my - "

"Not necessarily here," Simon says, absently reaching out and touching the rich foliage. "Anywhere. Any world where you could live a normal life, surrounded by normal people with normal problems."

"Normal gets boring after a while."

"I'd kill for something to be normal again," he murmurs.

"You'd kill? Really?"

He turns towards her with a smile, but something in the way she says it, something in the expression on her face ... he suddenly feels very cold.