And I don't mind, if it's me you need to turn to

So did anybody figure out why the dragons were here? Mine's gone now except it didn't explode and I could never understand what made it explode, because it was fine when Sky and I were together and then when I went down to work it would be fine around some people but not around others...

... or maybe I'm just thinking too hard about it.

Oh, oh, and I almost forgot! My Spandex suit has an upgrade! It's called S.W.A.T. Mode and I get a new gun and extra armor to go with it! I was fighting a bunch of evil robots with it and Ghost was there and Sky was too.

[This memory is from the episode "Robotpalooza", a transcript of which can be read here. The staticed out name is "Gruumm", that of the Big Bad.]

[The unmistakable sound of Bridge's heavy breathing can be heard, before the voice of his Commander, Cruger, is heard murmuring in his ear.]

Cruger: Cadet Carson… …Bridge?

[When Bridge speaks, he is obviously half-asleep, so Ghost's voice is barely audible to anybody listening in.]

Bridge: Five more minutes, Sky…

Cruger: Alright. You just sleep as long as you want.

Bridge: Thanks.

Ghost: You've got to be kidding me…

( 5 more minutes, Sky... )

I do not have a toast gut!

... well, maybe a little, but it's not THAT bad!

... is it?

Hop, two, three, hop, two, three!

All this hopping like a frog is great exercise. And no, Sky, before you ask, I'm not going to make a habit of it.

GOOD DAY, Sphere! In case I haven't introduced myself to you yet, I'm Bridge~ ♥ I'm Head of the Scavengers, here for all of your junk-finding needs. And if you seek employment with me, I'd be more than happy to give you an interview.

I found an awesome, gigantic rubber shark in an old bathtub down in the Yard. I'm going to call him Crunchy. Or maybe Bitey. Or COLOSSASHARK.

Sky, I wanna keep him. :( He doesn't bite... well, he DOES bite but he can't really hurt anybody because it's kinda hard to do any damage when your teeth aren't actual teeth, just little nubs of rubber and foam. And I don't think he'll need any food. I can even drag the bathtub up here to keep him in, and I'll make sure he has clean water!

(Inara, how do you get your boyfriend to stop glaring? I can never seem to. :( )

It amazes me how my brain, so complex and full of nooks and crannies and gray matter and various thoughts all merging together into one complicated stream running throughout my consciousness, can be tuned to one simple idea upon waking.

( Cut for length (yes, it did get that long; this IS Bridge we're talking about) )

[[TL;DR translation: I had cinnamonsugar toast for breakfast and now I have a lot of thinking to do.]]

so glad 'm not the only one hearing voices.

this place really really needs to stop fucking with my mind. yuh-hmm. that would be great.

[OOC note: When Bridge first came to the Sphere, he didn't know to wear gloves to suppress his powers, so the siren call is similar to how he'd hear snatches of peoples' thoughts from time to time. Naturally, when it started happening again he had another "oh shit my powers are going out of control" moment, but thankfully Spike kept his journal from him til it passed.]

[The writing is barely recognizable as Bridge's and meanders all over the page as he writes. He had Sight's dream and thinks he's going insane.]

i think

cant go to sleep

ever again

So I had a thought.

Maybe the reason all this weird stuff happens in Edensphere is because we're actually all upside-down! It makes sense, really! I got the theory when Rivelata suddenly appeared in the sky and thought about it some more when I went over there because they appear upside-down to us but to their point of view, WE'RE the upside-down ones. So what if in accordance with the definition of what right-side-up is in the entire universe and all of the other places and universes we're connected to, we're actually upside-down, we're all actually pointing downward and are just held in place by some kind of strange reverse-gravity that exists within the confines of the Sphere? We ARE inside a giant glass dome, after all! Maybe its big enough to exert its own gravity or whoever made the Sphere made sure there's some other kind of force that keeps us anchored down and only THINKING that we're right-side-up! And perhaps if we found some way to defy, change, and correct our inherent upside-down-ness, everything will go back to normal and we'll all stop disappearing and dying and sniping at each other. After all, I do my best thinking when I'm standing on my head, which would make me right-side-up according to the universe's way of being right-side-up, so maybe if EVERYONE tried it once in a while we'd become aware of the upside-down-ness and correct ourselves!

THINK RIGHT-SIDE-UP! CHANGE THE SPHERE!

^_^