symphony

Aug. 21st, 2014 06:29 pm
isthisart: (d ~ nickname)
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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."

Date: 2014-08-26 04:51 pm (UTC)
first_loyalty: (9. stand one moment)
From: [personal profile] first_loyalty
"Well... they don't. But if they did, I imagine... he might take her last name; she wouldn't take his, unless she really wanted to, I suppose. But she wouldn't stop being Vor. The most that might happen is that she might... lie, pretend, take his last name and then deny ever having been Vor in the first place. It's completely strange to think about."

Date: 2014-08-26 04:55 pm (UTC)
first_loyalty: (a. and bear it)
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"I... I don't know."

Date: 2014-08-26 05:06 pm (UTC)
first_loyalty: (8. madame)
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"I haven't ever heard of a Vor woman marrying someone who - wasn't. I suppose it must have happened at some point. It's just so strange."

Date: 2014-08-26 05:16 pm (UTC)
first_loyalty: (7. true vor)
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"Yes. That's allowed."

Date: 2014-08-26 05:17 pm (UTC)
first_loyalty: (8. madame)
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"The last one, I think."

Date: 2014-08-26 05:33 pm (UTC)
first_loyalty: (6. all's well)
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"If there's a difference in the death rate I'd be astonished if it didn't lean toward the men, especially now that we're not constantly dying in childbirth."

Date: 2014-08-26 05:45 pm (UTC)
first_loyalty: (7. true vor)
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"Yes, but - um. I'm not sure we've ever managed to go an entire generation without a war, until this one."

Date: 2014-08-26 05:47 pm (UTC)
first_loyalty: (9. stand one moment)
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"Maybe. I don't know very much, but I don't get the impression we've ever been an especially peaceful planet."

Date: 2014-08-26 05:52 pm (UTC)
first_loyalty: (8. madame)
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"And, well. Then we were invaded."

Date: 2014-08-26 06:01 pm (UTC)
first_loyalty: (9. stand one moment)
From: [personal profile] first_loyalty
"Before I was born, too. I'm not trying to - it's just - if we were ever going to turn into a peaceful planet, I don't think that helped. I'm not trying to say it's your fault, or anything - that would be utterly silly - but it's something that happened. Part of our history."

Date: 2014-08-26 06:04 pm (UTC)
first_loyalty: (7. true vor)
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"Really? I mean - I'm inclined to agree, but - counterproductive? Counter to what, um, production?"

Date: 2014-08-26 06:16 pm (UTC)
first_loyalty: (a. and bear it)
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"...that might be the most insightful analysis of the Cetagandan invasion I've ever heard," says Ekaterin, blinking. "I mean - I don't want to give the impression that it's competing with very much, but - I feel like I understand things that I didn't before."

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