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Jul. 25th, 2014 07:20 pm
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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.

Date: 2014-07-28 08:24 pm (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (③ inspiring)
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"I wouldn't object if you felt like it. 'Random assembly' seems fairly neutral, though."

He pauses briefly, then adds, "It occurs to me that producing the next generation of Vorkosigans will have to be the subject of an eventual conversation, but I'm in no hurry."

Date: 2014-07-28 08:30 pm (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (⑦ negotiation)
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"There are some Barrayarans who might fuss about that, but I'm very much not one of them. I was a replicator birth myself, if you hadn't heard."

Date: 2014-07-28 08:33 pm (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (⑤ miles)
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"Well, your prediction is confirmed."

Date: 2014-07-29 09:55 pm (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (⑥ ivan)
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"This is indeed it. Where did you find pictures of my house?"

Date: 2014-07-29 10:00 pm (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (⑦ negotiation)
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"Really? Did they manage to dig up a picture of the one in Vorkosigan Vashnoi before—ah—it was destroyed?"

Date: 2014-07-29 10:06 pm (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (⑨ obstacles)
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"I own Vorkosigan Vashnoi," he mentions. "Directly, I mean. Grandfather left it to me specifically, God knows why. Some kind of obscure statement."

Date: 2014-07-29 11:28 pm (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (⑦ negotiation)
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"An obscure one, of course. Possibly relating to the fact that it'll be sometime late-ish in my life when the place starts to be potentially habitable again. If I feel like being kind and ruling out all interpretations along the lines of 'let the tainted land go to the tainted grandson'."

And with that, they arrive at the house. Miles nods to the armsman in brown-and-silver livery who lets them in. "Hello, Pym. Is Mother home?"

"Yes, milord," says, apparently, Pym. "In the library."

"Right then. To the library we go," says Miles. He notes in passing that their combined luggage has been lined up neatly in the front hall, out of the way of pedestrian traffic.

Date: 2014-07-30 12:36 am (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (⑤ miles)
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Once again, Miles is called upon to navigate. Vorkosigan House is not quite as mazelike as ImpSec HQ, but it definitely has its quirks.

Date: 2014-07-30 01:10 am (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (④ farmland)
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"Ooh, that's well thought of," says Miles when she starts drawing the map. "Maybe you won't get lost here as often as most people."

Date: 2014-07-30 01:12 am (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (⑥ ivan)
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"Yeah. New Armsmen, new servants, new anybody."

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