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[flybywash]

The door slides back with a clank. Wash steps down into Serenity's front hall, Tonks not far behind. There's a second's wariness on his part as she passes over the threshold -- that gŏushĭ with Crowley only happened because the demon was still alive five hundred years later, but hey, you never know when you'll be dealing with sudden wacky time travel issues again -- and then he shuts it behind her, quickly pulling it open again to reveal the bridge.

"I just gotta check the helm really fast," he says as he steps back up, smiling. "You can come take a look if you want."

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[clumsy_auror]

Tonks tries not to be too gleeful at this offer. And fails. "Ooooh. Yes please!"

[flybywash]

Wash beams and rubs his hands together. "Then a tour you shall get," he intones, and gets to work hopping up the ladder.

[clumsy_auror]

The witch clambers up the ladder after him, and soon the ship echoes with the sounds of her eager questions and the pilot's genial replies.

And Tonks only falls down the stairs once.

Miracles do happen.