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Linyabel Miriat ⍟ "Linya" ([personal profile] isthisart) wrote2014-07-25 07:20 pm

overture

Nine days into their fourteen-day trip, the courier ship arrives in the Komarr system. Five more jumps to go. Miles is not yet capable of peeling himself off a willing Linya before he passes out (and willingness is in no short supply), and the resulting peculiar sleep schedule causes Ivan no end of giggling. Linya draws him diagrams of more complicated braids as aspirational goals (getting five and a half feet of slidy-soft hair to be in even the simplest braid properly is a little tricky), which induces Miles to spend most of a day fascinatedly braiding and rebraiding her hair in various configurations. She, meanwhile, writes pen software that eats standard comconsole software and renders it for pen-ability in what she thinks is a user-friendly manner, and works on Russian.

When they reach the Komarr system, there's a message squirt, bounced at lightspeed from the little ships that do nothing but dance back and forth from side to side of the intervening wormholes collecting and broadcasting data. It says that Captain Illyan invites Miles to supplement his mission report by bringing his wife along.
thisvorlunatic: (② conspirator)

[personal profile] thisvorlunatic 2014-08-01 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
...Miles cracks up.
thisvorlunatic: (③ inspiring)

[personal profile] thisvorlunatic 2014-08-01 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
He giggles helplessly into her shoulder.
thisvorlunatic: (⑥ ivan)

[personal profile] thisvorlunatic 2014-08-01 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Um... in front of Mother is fine, in front of the servants and armsmen I'd rather you didn't make it a habit but I'll survive the occasional indiscretion, in front of Father..." For some reason, he recalls the time he creatively interpreted an order to stay off his broken-and-mending legs by sliding down the banister of the main stairs and unexpectedly landed in his father's arms. "...is also fine," he concludes.
thisvorlunatic: (① pleased)

[personal profile] thisvorlunatic 2014-08-02 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
He giggles some more, hugging her.