"I don't feel like I did. Not really. Sayin' good-bye to folk, for me -- 's far more personal than what we had on Jethro."

pictures and stones and paper flowers

Then, bizarrely enough, Mal chuckles.

"Think about it. Persephone. Where we picked up Simon 'n River, 'n Book. Everythin' started here, you could say."

Mal holds up his ring in one hand. The engraving might be visible if Wash squints.

"Look at how much changed."