[ THISAVROU: INBOX ] MID messages & IC mail

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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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I'm succeeding. You don't think a planet that forces us to participate in mandatory romantic designation is a little weird?

[whatdidisay]

Would you be saying this if you were pared up with a six foot five amazon with deep, dark black hair?

So they're big on monogamy and marriage, so what? It's not like they're shacking you up and forcing you to have perfect genetic kids. We've been to that planet, remember? And it was a lot less fun than this one.

[forwardmomentum]

And would you be defending it if you were paired up with a herm? Why are you refusing to consider the possibility that, based on past experience alone, this place might actually pose some threat to us? And I thought your self-preservation instinct was your only wit intact. Have you developed a sudden taste for risk-taking, Ivan?

[whatdidisay]

So it's the fact they're a herm that's the problem? Miles, what would your mother say?

I can't believe you're dead set on ruining this planet for me. None of the ghem women wanted to produce little half Ceta babies, so that argument is invalid -- the only person who wanted to ruin me slipped me an anti-aphro. I only got kidnapped because you had to go sticking your nose where it doesn't belong.

My very first kidnapping.

[whatdidisay]

How come I've gotten kidnapped twice and you've only had the once? How is that even remotely fair?

[forwardmomentum]

[ ivan DON'T YOU EVEN

it's so frustrating when ivan refuses to be complicit in his paranoia, GOD. the point about the kidnappings is something miles doesn't have an immediate response to, although he's working on one, he swears. it wasn't my fault is a tempting choice, but miles is loath to use ivan's favorite protest. uuughhh ]

You know what? Fine. You do whatever you want, if you're so set on it. Enjoy your date with Elizabeth -- that one I mean sincerely -- go carousing, whatever. I'm going to investigate.

[whatdidisay]

( miles it's totally your fault, though, both times were because he was associated with you. don't YOU even. )

I will. And you will. And don't you dare try and drag me into this one.

( FAMOUS LAST WORDS, IVAN XAV VORPATRIL. )

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I won't.

[ FAMOUS LAST WORDS, MILES NAISMITH VORKOSIGAN. ]