Thank you very much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

I love Sam's hybrid voice in the interstices of the story

Oh, yay! At first I wasn't sure I could pull it off. (River Tam, yes. Illyria, sure. But hybrid-babble? Eek!) But it ended up being really fun to write.

these glimpses of Kara, broken but pulling herself together (like the ship Bill's holding together with hope and glue)

I'm thrilled that you noticed that! She's splintered, too.

Thank you for reading!