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Water under the bridge, Chapter 2"I had a dog once, like most boys, but I left him at home for the war and I got a wave that said he'd passed of old age before I got back. Never seemed right to get another, especially one I'd be dragging all over the verse and back," Mal said.
"We had the most adorable little black cat. Unfortunately there was some unpleasantness involving a crossbow, we never did replace her," Dawn offered.
"I had crickets," Inara smirked at the raised eyebrows. "You see having a cricket in a little bamboo cage was considered good luck. They were clean, didn't take up much space and don't require a lot of attention. I thought they'd be perfect, but no matter what I did they'd die the next day."
She sipped her tea before continuing, "I went through over a hundred crickets and had several experts called in before we discovered what was wrong."
"What was it?" Mal asked, unable to wait any longer.
"Well the perfume I'd had personally designed just for me turned out to be the most narrowly targeted insecticide ever." She grinned.
"Don't tell me." Dawn snickered.
"Yep, the specially tailored and patented perfume I used that was 95 creds an ounce was deadly to crickets." Inara burst out laughing.
"So, what'd you do?" Mal asked.
Inara shrugged. "What could I do? It was as absolutely perfect a perfume for me as could be made, but was deadly to my chosen pets." She grinned evilly as she sipped her tea. "So I sold the formula to the Verse's biggest insecticide company and now when I want to buy more perfume I can get half a liter for a single cred."
"That's brilliant!" Mal declared, grinning wildly while the girls giggled.
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