Canon is the Vorkosigan books.

[gregorian]

Well.

Let's see what happens.

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Oh my gosh :D

[perfectrecall]

Sometimes, Sire, that's the best you can wish for.



[OOC: My Illyan is rusty but another Vorkosigan player definitely made me want to dust him off 8D]

scream!

[gregorian]

[ Gives Illyan an acknowledging nod. ] She doesn't have much foresight, this one.



[ ooc: Illyan! omg. Gregor is fresh here, and I'm also thinking of attempting Miles. ]

[perfectrecall]

[A faint frown pulls at the corner of Illyan's mouth, but the expression is barely there and in a blink, completely gone.]

That, however, is not.

[OOC: :D How early? Vor Game early? What I've played of Illyan has been early, but like...Escobaran war early...]

Gregor I've been playing before marriage but after runaway attempt. Miles, I don't know yet.

[gregorian]

No... [ Agreement. Not a damn thing he can do about it, though.

Method of survival, in an office like Emperor: figure out how not to care too much about the things you can't change. ]

I'm not sure what she'll find, if she removes me from the office of the Emperor.

ooooh, nice.

[perfectrecall]

Nothing pleasant I'm sure. [There's only the slightest pause before Illyan continues on, dry, almost observant.]

Impsec for one would not be pleased.

[gregorian]

ImpSec doesn't have very much choice in the matter, Simon.

[ Pointed out, gently. ]

Nor do you have much access to the places I might be.

[perfectrecall]

[This time the frown that passes over Illyan's features is swift but deep, his fingers twitching slightly by his side.]

Now that, Sire, is something that I very much don't like.

[gregorian]

I'm not very fond of it either.

[ Imperial Security isn't a chokehold, for Gregor. It's his natural environment, or the closest he comes to a natural environment. Being without it is... free-fall. It's danger. It's all these things he shouldn't be exposed to. ]

[perfectrecall]

[Illyan let out a low, tense sigh.]

Nothing that you or I could do? That is...quite a situation.

[unmakeme]

Famous last words.

[gregorian]

Oh, I don't know, I've said them a few times now.

[unmakeme]

Somehow, I don't find that as comforting as you probably think I should.

[gregorian]

I could make it worse, if you like.

-- Surely something bad would have happened by now.

What could go wrong?

[unmakeme]

Gregor! No, I would not like.

You really don't understand the mind currently pulling your strings, do you?

The worst that can happen... you're going to give me grey hairs.

[gregorian]

I was under the impression you wouldn't know who I was, actually.

[unmakeme]

Well, not there. But here things are a bit more... amorphous. It's complicated. I find flow charts extremely helpful.

[gregorian]

I wouldn't be much at politics if I couldn't hold two mutually contradictory realities in my head simultaneously.

[thatidiot]

What happens with what?

[All due respect but whenever you or Miles gets cryptic it tends to end badly. For him.]

[gregorian]

Ah, Ivan, just who I need.

How would you like to travel to a city entirely centered on sex, in my place?

[thatidiot]

It really says something about one of us that that's not as bad as I expected, Sire.

[gregorian]

It certainly does.

[ Namely, in this case, that Ivan needs to get smart and read the fine print. ]

Very well, off you go. I hope you recover well from the surgery and the chip in your head doesn't give you too much trouble.

[thatidiot]

[Namely that every time someone in his not-so-immediate family says those words HE GETS SHAFTED and Ivan is not a fan of being shafted in any sense. In any sense, Gregor. In any sense.]

Sounds above my pay grade.

[Oh who is he kidding. If you send Miles he'll just get dragged in.]

[gregorian]

[ Eyebrow arch. ] Nothing is above a Vor's pay grade.

[thatidiot]

[Face. Forever.

Nothing he wants to say is Emperor appropriate and you know it. What kind of sadistic twisted person are you, Gregor?]

[gregorian]

[ Trained by the Viceroy and Vicereine? Pretty sadistic.

A sigh. ]

It's an order I can't give, regardless. I have been chosen by forces greater than Us.