tagIllustratedThe Two Companions Illustrated Ch. 05  The Two
Companions Illustrated Ch. 05   (In which our hero, Jorge,
settles some old affairs, honors some old traditions and pulls
off the hat trick with Serenity's lovely ladies in our little
ship on the edge of the black.)  As Serenity climbed out of the
ionosphere of New Kashmir, River was idly singing Mera Joota Hai
Japani from an old Bollywood rasta about leaving while she
danced in the pilot's seat and calculated atmospheric drift,
relative velocities and trajectories to their next destination.
However the majority of her brain was devoted to analysis of the
complex emotions she had observed in the two couples in Inara's
shuttle yesterday. That was a puzzle worthy of her attention.
Mal looked on in bemusement and then drifted down into the
galley thinking _ "She's going to outgrow this boat someday and
I'm going to need a new pilot."  Jorge had just come up from the
hold where he had been leading a capoeira session. Even Jayne
and Zoe were learning th