<strong>Name:</strong>Elfi<br/><strong>Position:</strong>Ship's Slave<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Cargo hold, then brig, then cargo hold<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>None<br/><br/>Most of the Free Folk were gone or busy, so it was likely the only chance Elfi'd have.  She abandoned her broom, leaning it up against a stanchion, and hurried to the brig where her sleeping place was.<br/><br/>"Come on, Melly.  I want to show you something fine!"  She clutched the doll's hand and ran with her to the cargo hold, eyes alert for anyone who might see her and ready to dart into a hiding spot if they did.<br/><br/>"Close your eyes, honeybunch," she said when they neared the hold.  Against one wall - bulkhead - there was a maintenance ladder.  The slender round rungs hurt her bare feet a bit, and it was dangerous only climbing with one hand, but Elfi persisted.  Harder to ignore was the crazy falling worry in her tummy, but she didn't want to scare Melly so she couldn't let herself be scared.  The ladder gave way to a catwalk, all diamond shaped stretched steel, and Elfi crept out on it until she was slightly back from the open hatch with a good view outside.<br/><br/>"Look, Melly, she whispered excitedly.  "It's another planet.  A whole 'nother planet.  Gosh."  She laid on her belly and cradled the doll in the crook of her shoulder so their heads were at the same level.  "Ain't it shiny?  Well, dusty yeah, but shiny all the same.  And smell it too.  That's a real place out there with folk and maybe cattle and some pigs.  Captain and the others are going out to barter and get some more go fuel for us, then we'll be off to another planet maybe.  I'd like to see that.  See if it looks anyhow the same or strange."  For several minutes she just laid there with her doll, watching the view.<br/><br/>"Oh, and I gots you another present.  A pretty!"  She reached inside her shift, way down around her waist, and unwrapped the scarf Serenity had given her.  The ends were tasseled, and she draped them across the doll's head, then arranged them so it looked like she had a red bob instead of her normal brown hair.  "Look at that, Melly.  You done look like Master Sue's niece with her crown of fire hair.  A real Rose of Sharon that girl is."  No one had ever been able to tell her where that came from, but her ma said it meant red headed.  "And when can drape it like this, so you look like you're wearing one of Mistis Serenity's gowns.  You're the bell of the ball, baby girl."  Happy, genuinely happy, Elfi continued to play and talk to her doll and watched the world go by outside.<br/><br/>She was safe, she'd eaten today, no one was yelling for her to do a chore, and she had a friend.  What else did folk need but maybe a little fiddle music to have everything be right in their own little corner of the 'Verse?<br/><br/><br/><div align="center">(http://[url=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bvVvxWTEuSI/R5jVyt3C-jI/AAAAAAAACkQ/G3j6u_D49kQ/s320/RED+wool+scarf.jpg]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bvVvxWTEuSI/R5jVyt3C-jI/AAAAAAAACkQ/G3j6u_D49kQ/s320/RED+wool+scarf.jpg[/url])</div>