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CODE 🔋 3:27 AM

Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan

UNSETTLED HERO
"LADY VORKOSIGAN"

ADDRESS
THE RESIDENCE

MESSAGE
"This is Cordelia,
leave me a message."

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Comments

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Apparently, more than I had intended, but...

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[ She chuckles again while she takes another drink of water. ]

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Out of curiosity, is this number 15 or were you just looking to my tastes?

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15?

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Well. The way it was phrased was not particularly simple to achieve with two participants...

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Well, 15 could also lead to 27 too, so ...

[ She grins at him. ]

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I... hadn't considered that. How...?

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[ She raises her eyebrows. ] Oil.

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... Ah.

[He looks less scandalized and more very intensely interested.]

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Well, oil and a bit of rope, really, but only if you're not that flexible. Sounds like fun, doesn't it?

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Who is that flexible to begin with?

It sounds like a backache. Might be worth trying though.

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Younger people, mostly, or at least more enthusiastic. I've had that one on my list for a while, after all.

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I'll find out if there's interest, then.

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Good God, Aral, don't ask him that off the bat. First he has to be comfortable with being involved with more than one person.

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I hadn't intended immediately. Frankly, I need to speak with Allison before anything at all.

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[ Her expression brightens in surprise and something like pride for Aral figuring out that more conversations need to take place. ]

How do you think she'll take it?

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[He. Tries to recall any particular resentment towards Gregor and comes up dry.





On the other hand, Tex and Jim were entirely another matter.]

... Absolutely no idea.

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[ She rolls her eyes fondly. ]

Good thing you'll be talking to her ahead of time then, hmm?

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That would be the idea. I've no wish for... unlevel heads.

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Unlevel? Is that speaking from some kind of experience?

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[He frowns at her.]

Yes. I was the unlevel one at the time. [Twenty, dumb and too willing to listen to people he shouldn't have.] I'm very aware of how it may go.

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[ She winces. Then reaches out to him, a hand cupping his cheek. ]

Sorry. I was attempting to tease about experience with multiple lovers.

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[His own hand lifts to cover hers. It's a gentle comfort to indulge in.]

My apologies. It shouldn't weigh as much as it does after all this time.

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Things like that just get more distant, but the weight of them doesn't really go away.

[ She brushes her thumb across his cheek. ] Is anything about this bothering you? Making you uncomfortable or unsure? You don't have to move forward yet if you're not.

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It is nothing so active as being bothered. Doubts rarely are.

...

If you did not trust me as much as you do, I doubt I'd have found the ability to trust myself at all with this.

Mostly, I wonder if it is okay to be happy with this.