River took a bite and rolled her eyes. "The gun wasn't loaded," she said a little petulantly. He had just been cleaning his weapon, which meant chances were already very good that it hadn't been loaded. Plus the way he had handled it would have been different in ways only someone with her intellect and powers of observation would have noticed if it had been loaded.<br/><br/>She took a drink, giggling as she remembered Jayne's reaction. It was amusing how afraid of her he was. Simon had told him that gorram phrase yet had he? He and Mal were the only ones on the ship that knew, just in case something happened again.<br/><br/>Everyone worried too much but after her little display with the Reavers she couldn't exactly blame them. She'd gone head to head- alone, armed with nothing but a couple blades- with dozens of the bloodthirsty creatures. And she was the one that had emerged unscathed. "Are you planning on checking out the city later?"