I absolutely adore this story. I'm so so glad you decided to continue it. I've just been so terribly busy lately that I haven't gotten a chance to read every chapter right when you post. I'll soon have more time, however. I'm a huge fan of this show, and yours is the most believable River I've ever read on this site :)

This was great!

I like how you're keeping us guessing: Is this a dream, a disociated holucinagenic experience, a program they're running on her brain to see if they can make her believe things/perceive them to be true, false memories they've implanted, it could be many things. Well done.
Riona

You make me worry so much for River even though we all know she gets away eventually. I'm on the edge of my seat waiting dreading the next horrible thing they will do to her.

Aah River still able too logically think in such a situation. Gentle too, still concerned about the life of someone she thinks might be innocent.
She is thinking tactically as well, that is an interesting departure from most fics, thinking about how to defend herself and hurt him, planning it. The planning is not the odd thing, it is the fact that she is fully self aware that she is River Tam as she does it, not a robot. River that was, is a bit feistier than Simon thinks. Like it.

Confused on the Simon thing, looking forward too how that plays out.

Nice chapter! I'm guessing this is when Simon rescues her.

Its only been five months, poor River, she has years to go. I don't think the person next to her is really Simon, her brain is playing a trick on her. I really like how well you capture the fleeting feelings and states of semi consciousness that one experiences when one is in a hospital bed/put under/ half awake. You do it well. Its wonderful to see how much your writing improves as you go. Go back to the beginning of this story and read a few chapters, comparing them to your current work, your writing has become so much more adept and descriptive and evokative. Well done you! I knew right from the start that you had great potential, and I expect it will continue developing. I knew it from the beginning and so I always read your stories.
Riona

I'm so afraid that it really has only been 5 months for her and that Simon is not really Simon.

Finally caught up hope you still plan on continuing.

I didn't PM but thanks to those that did.

Does this mean I can bug you with PM's if I get impatient waiting for updates? ;-)

I see you have continued. That is indeed good. I would suspect that although many enjoy this story they may not review so much because its pretty tough imagining what River must have gone through. I have enjoyed River's prespective and her questioning of herself. Great stuff. I am pretty confussed at this point about the time line but since the stroy is from River's perspective that actually really makes sense. It could have been 4 months or 4 years who knows. I also don't know what is really happening to her or what she dreams or imagines which of course she probably doesn't either. If there was some way to que the readers of the actual contecnt without getting away from the story being from River's perspective I would like that.

Almost

River says its been 3 weeks but earlier it sounds like 2 years of summers and winters. I wonder if her tome referense is off or the summer winter stuff was just in her head.

At least she has a Volger now to know she isn't compleetly wacked. Dr. Mathias better be more careful around River especially know that they pumped her full of who knows what kind of information.

man, that has gotta be horrifying to figure out.

"Sometimes there was clarity, and in those moments she analyzed and thought in perfect little crystals that she strung on strands of iron." Lots of brilliant nuggets like this in the chapter.