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Linyabel Miriat ⍟ "Linya" ([personal profile] isthisart) wrote2014-08-21 06:29 pm

symphony

The day of the party approaches. Linya learns a Barrayaran-original solo piano symphony, adds some flourishes of her own where the composer has marked that it may be played "freely", memorizes the whole thing, and arranges to be playing it on the grand piano when party guests file in on the day of. She smiles and nods at them and takes note of how they arrange themselves in the room; there are thirteen minutes in the piece unless she decides she needs an extra three (if there seem to be a lot of stragglers; if there isn't a good path to the people she wants to meet and around the people she wants to avoid) and takes the repeat at the end to prolong it.

She doesn't wind up taking the repeat; the end of the symphony without it has her playing the final chord when Lord Auditor Vorthys is nearer than anyone she's hoping to evade. She counts out the beats, holds for a moment longer, and then lifts her hands from the keyboard. She has decided that given her choice of titles she's going to address this particular guest as -

"Professor Vorthys."
first_loyalty: (7. true vor)

[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-25 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, that seems simple enough."
first_loyalty: (8. madame)

[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-25 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Very, what's the word, user-friendly," says Madame Vorsoisson.
first_loyalty: (2. heart's ease)

[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-25 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Friendly of it."
first_loyalty: (1. make me laugh)

[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-25 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
"That seems like it's going to work well."
first_loyalty: (5. what to do)

[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-25 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Madame Vorsoisson smiles after her husband, then returns her attention to Lady Vorkosigan.

"What are you thinking of doing next?"
first_loyalty: (9. stand one moment)

[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-25 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Genetics knowledge...?"
first_loyalty: (a. and bear it)

[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-25 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
"And then do... what with it?"
first_loyalty: (6. all's well)

[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-25 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, but then what did you mean by long-term projects?"
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[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-25 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Wormhole generators? Is that even theoretically possible...?"
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[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-25 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, I don't know anything about that."
first_loyalty: (c. have you considered not doing that)

[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-25 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
...Madame Vorsoisson blinks in startlement. "Um?"

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