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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."
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[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-26 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Ick," says Ekaterin. "About Jackson's Whole, I mean. I don't know very much about the place, but the little that I know is... ick."
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[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-26 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
"That seems like a reasonable definition of civilized. But... I hope Barrayar will be civilized enough to keep you."
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[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-26 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Ekaterin giggles. "Is that last part very important?"
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[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-26 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
"He did seem charming, from what I saw of him."
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[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-26 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
"...He's very good at it," says Ekaterin.
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[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-26 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh - he knew my father, and my father arranged us."
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[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-26 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Among the Vor, yes. Although I think it's getting less so. My father is a little old-fashioned."
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[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-26 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
"It's... it's all right. We're not forced to marry, if we don't like each other - if I'd been put off Tien from the start I could just have declined to say my vows, and not have suffered anything but my father's disappointment. I took my oath of my own will."
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[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-26 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not especially, no."
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[personal profile] first_loyalty 2014-08-26 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"That sounds... uncomfortable, yes."

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