veryvorkosigan: (sigil)
veryvorkosigan ([personal profile] veryvorkosigan) wrote2014-01-01 08:45 pm

Winterfair

Vorkosigan House is astir this evening: the children are getting their own carefully supervised Winterfair party in the nursery wing, and the adults making ready to head to the Imperial Residence for the Emperor's party.

In the Dowager Countess's suite, there's one extra guest making ready.
maxwellsdemon02: (Watching)

[personal profile] maxwellsdemon02 2014-01-05 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Duo manages to be only slightly twitchy because he isn't in the driver's seat.

Heh. If Relena could see him now.

He spends most of the trip staring out at the city in fascination. A city on another planet. In another system entirely. They've barely started on Mars.
maxwellsdemon02: (Real smile)

[personal profile] maxwellsdemon02 2014-01-05 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
He tries not to goggle too obviously, but his enthusiasm is easily detected.

"Thanks," he says to her. "For inviting me, I mean. This is amazing."
maxwellsdemon02: (Doubtful)

[personal profile] maxwellsdemon02 2014-01-05 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
He immediately goes blank. They had a pretty thorough briefing before they left Milliways, he's pretty sure they covered everything. From fashion to some social no-nos.

"Don't think so. Elbow me if I'm using the wrong fork or something?"
maxwellsdemon02: (Wasn't me)

[personal profile] maxwellsdemon02 2014-01-06 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, no. I am pretty good at following the lead of everyone around me to blend in. But just in case."

He fiddles with one of his jacket cuffs.
maxwellsdemon02: (Bangs)

[personal profile] maxwellsdemon02 2014-01-07 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Security is thorough but polite, courteously asking if Duo minds having his knife peace-bonded. They're used to weapons around here, Duo sees plenty of swords hanging from belts.

They assure him the spray they use won't have any negative effect on the finish of his knife or sheath, and they can apply the solvent on their way out.

Good enough for him, he doesn't expect to need to use it. And if he does, he can get creative.
maxwellsdemon02: (Snappy dresser)

[personal profile] maxwellsdemon02 2014-01-08 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Here goes nothing," Duo says, flashing that same wide grin once more.

"Looks like your Emperor really knows how to throw a party."

Or a few dozen people who work for him, anyway.
maxwellsdemon02: (Black hat)

[personal profile] maxwellsdemon02 2014-01-12 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
"So, does the 'Vor' prefix-thingy have a meaning? Or is it just traditional?" He copies her smile (though with a few more teeth in it), peering around them at the other guests. Some of whom peer back, equally curious.
maxwellsdemon02: (smirk)

[personal profile] maxwellsdemon02 2014-01-12 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Duo smirks. "Nothing wrong with a thief or two."

...or a couple hundred, considering their surroundings.
vorpatril: (leaning on a wall)

[personal profile] vorpatril 2014-01-12 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Ivan is at the buffet table putting together two plates and mentally going through what he knows Tej likes and what she needs to try, when he spots them.

The Dowager Countess is hard to miss, but he doesn't know the man, young man, with her and stabs himself with a cocktail fork, the two swords of his dress uniform clinking against the table, "Aunt Cordelia, good evening."
maxwellsdemon02: (Is that so?)

[personal profile] maxwellsdemon02 2014-01-12 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Pleased to meet you," Duo says, giving Ivan another one of those short bows. "Recommend anything in particular?" he asks, gesturing toward the plates.
vorpatril: (leaning on a wall)

[personal profile] vorpatril 2014-01-12 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
His thoughts race, why is he being introduced as family? Is this Duo going to become family too? His mother, Miles, Miles should have warned him, in triplicate,

"Um, the puff things taste like something Ma Kosti made though I don't think she did. Would have heard of that. Yes, she is, with Mamere talking about I think...clothes when I left."
Edited 2014-01-12 04:12 (UTC)
maxwellsdemon02: (*beeeeams*)

[personal profile] maxwellsdemon02 2014-01-12 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Duo cheerily investigates the food on the tables closest to them, and takes one of the aforementioned puff things. He also goes for anything that looks like fruit. There's plenty that he recognizes- whoever the original colonists were, they must have taken some flora with them.

When you spend a lot of time in space, you get used to some of the food not being the same as it is planetside. But Duo got spoiled by fresh fruit from Earth, and at Milliways.

Hey look, grapes!
vorpatril: (what now)

[personal profile] vorpatril 2014-01-12 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
That's not helpful and Ivan smiles at his aunt though its a bit pained.

There are things he should know like who is the far younger man she's with who is devouring the fruit, "You probably will. Mamere hasn't let Tej go far from her since we arrived."

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