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Linya and Bella are working on wishes, in between light chat about runecasting and their personal lives. It is radiantly obvious to people paying attention that Bella wants to kiss her and Linya is married, although neither statement is made.
Ivans are playing cards.
Mileses, including Solvei, are debating the wisdom of borrowing another strategy game from Bar; Mark, a voice of caution, does not know what will happen if all of them (Solvei, Mial, Miles, Milo, Stalas) all start screaming at each other in twenty directions.
And -
thisvorlunatic
I'm saying I have absolutely no objection whatsoever to you kissing her.
"Should I not be asking why you abstained?" inquires Stalas of Milan.
"Should I not be asking why you abstained?" inquires Stalas of Milan.
isthisart
And she would be thrilled, but she is single while we have been being monogamous. Are you suggesting a single exception or a class of them?
thisvorlunatic
"Please don't guess," says Miles, catching the thread of this exchange despite his distraction.
To Linya he pens, Alts as a class. And if you made the reciprocal exception I might look at some alts where I wouldn't be especially inclined to look at just anybody even if I had the option, but I'm just as happy without.
To Linya he pens, Alts as a class. And if you made the reciprocal exception I might look at some alts where I wouldn't be especially inclined to look at just anybody even if I had the option, but I'm just as happy without.
isthisart
If you don't object I'd just as soon continue to keep you to myself, but if you likewise don't mind if I do kiss her I very well might. Significantly because her massive egotistical crush on me is adorable.
isthisart
With that, Linya murmurs something to Bella, who blushes, slightly, and then Linya remarks, "I'm going to see if I can't take advantage of the time-dilation here again. Do pen me if anything interesting happens."
And they go upstairs.
And they go upstairs.
gloriousdawn
"Huh, a little bit," says Solvei. "—Uh, earlier Sis kept getting pissed off at Mark for being able to half read our damn mind, and the phrase she used as shorthand for this was 'outside view', because that's sort of the relevant factor from her perspective, the fact that Mark sees his Miles from the outside so he knows what it looks like when various things are happening in a Miles's brain so he has a well-developed ability to guess what we're thinking. Sis is starting to pick up the skill."
unmarred
"Outside view," Inlaith repeats thoughtfully. "Yeah."
"I'm picking up the generalized version with pleasing rapidity," says Mark.
"I'm picking up the generalized version with pleasing rapidity," says Mark.
gloriousdawn
"I am both a Miles and a Mark!" says Solvei. "Currently a Miles, but Sis - who has no name, if you were wondering - is in here listening. And wow I just realized these nametags don't show who you're an instance of. We are all fools. Somebody pass me a bunch more nametags and a marker."
gloriousdawn
She catches them. "Thanks. Okay, gather round, my pretties."
And she writes out updated Miles-and-sibling nametags as follows:
And she writes out updated Miles-and-sibling nametags as follows:
Name: Miles Vorkosigan"Do you want me to do yours too?" she asks, glancing at the Ivans as she passes Milan his updated nametag.
Instance Of: Miles
World: Nexus
Name: Mark Vorkosigan
Instance Of: Mark
World: Nexus
Name: Stalas Aeducan
Instance Of: Miles
World: Thedas
Name: Mialavaraaninah
Instance Of: Miles
World: Elcenia
Name: Milo of Raxwell
Instance Of: Miles
World: Chronicle
Name: Solvei Koskin
Instance Of: Miles, Mark (ask me how!)
World: Wish
Name: Ashras Kevarsin
Instance Of: Miles
World: Suranse
Name: Inlaith Kevarsin
Instance Of: Mark
World: Suranse
Name: Elarron Kevarsin
Instance Of: Elarron
World: Suranse
Name: Milan Kosorin
Instance Of: Miles
World: Hubris
gloriousdawn
"And it's reasonably tidy that instances of Miles and Mark are named after their Nexus incarnations. You have an opportunity to continue this pattern and no especially good reason not to, as far as I can see," says Solvei.
near-the-sun
"If there was a Nexus version of me, I wouldn't mind ceding the collective to him," says Elarron. "...There isn't, right?"
unmarred
"Not as far as we know," says Mark. "Although of course it's hard to be sure."
Inlaith looks curiously at him.
Inlaith looks curiously at him.