dissonance

[isthisart]

Dr. Cheung's at a funeral all day, so Linya decides to go up to London and see if Miles is out of his Mood.

Security has decided to be deeply unhelpful today. She is currently showing them various forms of ID and repeating in a slow, patient voice that she has been here before, there is not more than one of her, and she promises she is not there to assassinate her husband or whatever fool thing has them skittish today. Perhaps she shouldn't drop in while the captain's missing; it seems to make them worse. But she got in before while he was missing...

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[whyexit]

"Will do, sir."

[thisvorlunatic]

"If I'm tremendously lucky," he adds, "I won't have to go after him personally and the risk of confusion will be minimal. But, uh... he does a really good impression of me, I'm told. So if you have doubts, don't hesitate to check. I'm going to be trying to get those assassination teams called off through other channels, but to be honest... I don't expect to be that lucky. And now I'd better go give Lieutenant Bone her money."

Off he goes, to find Lieutenant Bone. She is positively ecstatic. He directs her to pay off the mortgage on the Triumph in addition to clearing the fleet's miscellaneous minor debts, and presents her with the challenge of creating an untraceable credit chit for half a million marks payable to the bearer. She seems pretty pleased about that one too. Miles, lacking further tasks to keep him occupied, goes to bed and frets for a while until he finally falls asleep.