Feb 4

“Tell me we don’t have to worry about these things breeding,” Inara begged.

Mal shook his head. “Manifest said they were all male.”

“Manifest didn’t say they were insane killer mice.”

“And how were you figuring on explaining to the owner that his six live mice aren’t?”

“I hadn’t planned on telling any such thing. Wash tells me there’s a man who sells such things not a ten minute walk from here. Owner’ll get six male white mice, just like the manifest says.”

“And if he notices?”

“Then we’ll have a little talk about why it was his mice tried to kill my crew.”