june intro log overflow

[hohnkai]

This is an overflow for the intro post.

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[hostessing]

[ Oh thank goodness. If she were a theist like Cordelia, she might take this as proof for a higher being. ]

So they do listen. I know they don't care, but presentation and first impressions do have an impact.

[whatdidisay]

I think Aunt Cordelia knows that. ( ivan says, picking his words delicately. ) That's why she doesn't care -- that's the impact she wants to have.

Uncle Aral, though.

( who the hell knows. )

[hostessing]

[ Son, why must you hurt her so.

She answers with equal care, ] Sometimes taste can't be helped. [ Because she knows she's done all she can. ]

If they arrive, we can worry about their attire then.

[whatdidisay]

( because it is his Destiny as Ivan Vorpatril to cause his mother no small amount of grief. )

It's just the Vorkosigans doing what they do. ( ivan assures her, because his mother hasn't had time to get used to them. ) Aunt Cordelia was here -- you just missed her -- although she did leave a head in the kitchen.

[hostessing]

[ She nods forlornly. No, she's only had a couple of years around the couple, Aral had always been off and about on ship-duty and Cordelia was a relative new-comer.

What a future of messes she had to look forward to cleaning up.

It's Ivan's final words that earn her son her full attention. What had Cordelia gotten up to this time? Surely she hadn't done any decapitation here... ] Vordarian's I hope.

[whatdidisay]

Yeah, but-- it's still a head, Mamere.

( in the kitchen of all places!! )

[hostessing]

[ At least it's not someone else's head. ]

Have you removed it?

[whatdidisay]

I think someone did. Not me, though. Miles might have gone to grab it, although I think he thought it should stay there.

( what is he supposed to do with a head )

[hostessing]

[ Dispose of it properly Ivan, what else. ]

I suppose I'll have to ask him about it when I next see him, [ she says with a small sigh. ]

[whatdidisay]

( HOW )

Good luck prying it out of him if he doesn't want you to know.

( ah, cousins. )

[hostessing]

That's a habit you both share, I'm noticing.

[ Don't think she hasn't noticed you avoiding topics too, Ivan. ]

[whatdidisay]

Is it?

( shit. )