five ☀ video

[deshabille]

Who: Mal and you
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: The Marsiva
When: Right meow (November 8)

Is everyone having fun?

[You know . . . if her expression were any different, that would sound absolutely sarcastic and pretty condescending. But she's positively beaming. Gleeful. Mal is having a great few weeks.]

It's more fun on the ships, I have to admit, but everyone's minds are so interesting. People can look almost exactly the same on the outside and be absolutely distinctive on the inside. [And she thinks that's beautiful.]

Also, a question - most of these videos and things are from Earth, yes? Well, I'm not, so someone ought to tell me where to start. My requirements thus far are: no folk music, no Taylor Swift.

[A beat. She frowns.]

No romance unless there's also a lot of punching. [Or you're Cassandra. The only exception.]

Comments

[deshabille]

Is it good sword fighting.

[forgetyourusedtobe]

If the actors know what they're doing and it's not a bad high school production.

[deshabille]

What's high school.

[Q U E S T I O N S]

[forgetyourusedtobe]

Uh...well, it's part of... [Wait. Hold on.] Do you have public education where you're from?

[deshabille]

Public--?

[Squint.]

No . . . nothing like that. Not for girls, for certain.

[forgetyourusedtobe]

Okay, well. In the country where I'm from, boys and girls go to school from about age four or five until they're seventeen or eighteen. You have elementary school from kindergarten to fifth grade, then you're in middle school or junior high school. You're there until eighth grade, and then you start high school from ninth until twelfth.

[A beat.]

Does that make sense?

[deshabille]

. . . That's a lot of education.

[She looks thoughtful. Kind of impressed.]

But yes, it makes sense.

[forgetyourusedtobe]

Some people actually go on to do more than that, but that's when you have to start really paying for it directly. Our public education's funded through taxes.