hell of a party

[middlingalong]

Ivan must be drunker than he thought he was. He could have sworn he knew his way around Vivienne's parents' house, since she wanted to introduce him last week and showed him the place, but maybe they have a... secret... upstairs... bar? where Vivienne's room is supposed to be? And most certainly was last time he checked? He's never going to find the sweater she sent him up looking for here, anyway. Why is there a secret upstairs bar in Vivienne's parents' house?

Comments

[warpfairy]

"So we're told. Rumor has it you have elves. Before you ask, I am not an elf."

[thisvorlunatic]

"I wasn't going to ask," says Stalas. "I've never actually seen an elf, and I'm sure in a place like this there are any number of ways to end up with somebody who looks like a shortish human with pointy ears."

"So," says Miles, "I can't help noticing..." His eyes flick to Mark and Stalas's joined hands.

[unmarred]

"I wanna come back to Barrayar," Mark says brightly.

[isthisart]

"I'm tempted to suggest putting you in a duffel bag. It would be easier to convince Vivienne that she simply hadn't noticed me carrying one in."

[unmarred]

Mark cackles.

[thisvorlunatic]

"And how would you carry me in?" asks Stalas. "Two duffel bags? Alas, my princely dignity."

[isthisart]

"Would you object to sharing a duffel bag?"

[thisvorlunatic]

"...How sodding big are these bags?"

[unmarred]

"I don't object," says Mark.

[isthisart]

"As big as I ask Bar to make it, of course."

[warpfairy]

"If you could carry both of them in one bag you're probably stronger than I am. I suppose that's no great surprise."

[middlingalong]

"What, are e- are Vulcans super-strong?"

[warpfairy]

"Compared to unaugmented humans, yes, but we're pretty short on those in here at the moment."

[unmarred]

Mark snickers.

[thisvorlunatic]

Miles sighs long-sufferingly.

[isthisart]

Linya pets his hair.

[thisvorlunatic]

Hairpets: very cheering! Miles grins up at his wife.

[isthisart]

She kisses his forehead and goes back to walking Dr. Hall through nexus medicine. "We are alas reaching the extremities of my information, but that might constitute a sufficient booklist to take home and have a lifetime of conversion work."

[or_the_broken]

"Lifetime," he snorts. "Yeah. Thanks for everything. I think I'll take this back now."

[isthisart]

"Do you need it subsidized?" asks Linya.

[or_the_broken]

"Sure, if you're offering. I get the impression you make a lot more than I do, and it's a pretty long list."

[isthisart]

"It's no trouble. Bar, what are we looking at...? Yes, go ahead and put that all on my tab. Do you want it in nexus electronic formats or on hard copy?"

[or_the_broken]

"Depends. How big is the stack in hard copy?"

[isthisart]

About twice as tall as you are, Bar says.

"So, slightly awkward if you take it in one trip, but no fussing with exotic data conversion," says Linya.

[or_the_broken]

"Yeah. I'll take hard copy. And something to carry it all in."