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[forwardmomentum]

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IC Voice Mail "Personnel Officer Miles here. If this is a personal matter, leave a message; if it's ship business-related, may I direct you to the Personnel Office's suggestion box. Sending me a barrage of texts will not make me respond to you any faster, so don't, Ivan." Mun Contact PLURK:   runawayballista

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[forwardmomentum]

[ the butcher of torfan? yikes. miles will have to look into that one. being the son of the butcher of komarr, he knows that you don't earn a title like that lightly.

but there's not much more he can do here, he senses. it makes his chest ache a little, but -- stop that. she's not yours to save. she hardly knows you, and she sure as hell doesn't trust you. don't be a fool, boy. ]

Your uniqueness is a weapon in itself, should you choose to wield it instead of wearing it. But the path is yours to choose. You own that, if nothing else.

[petridish]

It's a weapon that hurts the user, and a path I never asked for.

Why the hell do you care, anyway? What's in this for you?

[forwardmomentum]

I never said it wasn't a double-edged sword.

Nothing, I guess. But I know someone a lot like you. My brother, in fact.

[petridish]

What, your brother's a clone?

[forwardmomentum]

Oh, yes. We only met just in the last year, in fact. While he was in the middle of a plot to assassinate and replace me, granted, but it wasn't really his idea, and we've moved past that.

[ he's pretty sure, anyway. if mark really wanted to kill him, he could've done it a thousand times over by now. ]

feel free to drop if this is too late.......

[petridish]

He was trying to assassinate you and you're calling him family.

You're insane.

IM GAME

[forwardmomentum]

That seems to be popular opinion.

He is, you know. Family, I mean. By more than one planet's legal standards. On Beta Colony, he's legally my brother. [ he's not anything on barrayar, but miles conveniently leaves that out. ] Like I said, it wasn't his idea, and in the end, I don't think it's what he really wanted to do anyway.

He is my own flesh and blood, whether either of us like it or not. And whatever my own feelings on the matter, my mother would've been furious if I'd let anything happen to him.

[petridish]

[Assassination wasn't her idea either, but what she wants to do has never mattered.]

Good for you.

In my timeline, Shepard's mother is dead, so she doesn't get a say, and there's no "legally" about this where the only rule is "don't murder your crewmates".

[forwardmomentum]

Then you're even freer than he is. I daresay he'd tell you the same.

[petridish]

He's going to tell me nothing, because you're not telling anyone else about this, even another clone.

[forwardmomentum]

Wasn't implying I would. But he is on the ship, if you ever find yourself in like-minded company. Oddly enough I think you'd get along, and Mark doesn't, generally. Get along, I mean.

[petridish]

I don't need company, like-minded or otherwise.