"She really likes water guns," he hears the kid saying before he turns the corner, "So I thought the paintball match would be fine, but-"

Professor Serra's there, of course, holding the shaking girl while the girl's-boyfriend? brother?-fidgets and frets and babbles on and on about loud noises and flashbacks. Ina-Professor Sera raises a significant eyebrow when she sees him, and Mal curses himself, because he just wanted to win the early registration prize, and he had a good chance, with Zoe and Jayne backing him up, but-fine.

This is the only building the fighting hasn't gotten to, and if the kid wants to take his-sister? he's going with sister-home, they'll have to either go through a dozen screaming paintball players or wait it out-possibly overnight-here in discomfort of the library. Unless-

Wash, he types into his cell phone. Meet me in the study room w/ the crew. And bring your blankets. We're making a fort.