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[isthisart]

The next time Linya and Ekaterin meet up (for impromptu bonsai skellytum pruning lessons, lunch, and an attempt to teach Ekaterin the simplest version of a complicated haut card game) Linya says, while shuffling for a second example round:

"Miles and I are planning to get married again, Barrayaran ceremony groats and all, and I wondered if you'd be my Second."

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[isthisart]

"Dither away." She kisses his head. "More adorable small-Linya pictures?"

[thisvorlunatic]

"Sure."

[isthisart]

She produces more adorable small-Linya pictures. They don't ever contain people other than her clearly visible in frame; either she's omitting those out of concern for the privacy of her fellow haut or for some reason group shots were not customary. There is some incidental imagery of the interior of her apartment, especially from after the invention of her pen when she could easily begin to take her own pictures; it was prettily decorated and spacious and had a gorgeous black grand piano in it. She is shown playing the piano and singing, walking from place to place, just smiling for the camera, and, in one particularly precious image, sitting in her float-chair for the very first time when she is three.

[thisvorlunatic]

Miles perches in her lap and giggles and hugs her a lot.

"If you want to see similar pictures of littler-Miles, you can ask Mother."

[isthisart]

"I believe I shall."

[thisvorlunatic]

He stretches up to kiss her on the cheek.

[isthisart]

Ooh, kisses. Linya approves. And kisses him right back. It's only fair.