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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.
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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
abeance
"We don't have a pun reason to use 'Ivan' as our collective name," Jann muses.
middlingalong
"There was another one also named that, though, and I was here first."
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.
unmarred
"In," Mark glances at Milan, "some Science Fantasy Lands, it's possible to produce an identical twin of someone if you have a little piece of them to copy from. Someone stole a little piece of Miles and made me, intending that I would kill and impersonate him and then murder his family. I decided I would rather not do that."
thisbrokenworld
Not-Solvei continues the thought. "You escaped the horrible Mark suffering?"
unmarred
"...I, er. Apparently?" says Inlaith.
"You're so much like me," marvels Mark.
"You're so much like me," marvels Mark.
unmarred
"I am looking at an alt of myself who has never been tortured," says Mark. "I don't know how to feel about this."
"Neither do I," says Inlaith.
"Neither do I," says Inlaith.
unmarred
"It shouldn't, logically," says Mark.
"I hardly think this is a very logical situation," says Inlaith.
"Solvei and I both had creators who for various reasons desired that we undergo horrible suffering," says Mark. "If you were just—born—then I don't see where the torture might be meant to come into it."
"I do sort of feel like I'm missing something now, though," Inlaith admits.
"Something you're better off without."
"How sure are you of that?"
"I hardly think this is a very logical situation," says Inlaith.
"Solvei and I both had creators who for various reasons desired that we undergo horrible suffering," says Mark. "If you were just—born—then I don't see where the torture might be meant to come into it."
"I do sort of feel like I'm missing something now, though," Inlaith admits.
"Something you're better off without."
"How sure are you of that?"