letter to cam #17

[thisvorlunatic]

You would not believe the month I've had.

I really did mean to get back to you within a few weeks of my last message, but circumstances intervened. On the other hand, it seems to have worked out all right this way, because there's an Ash and Stars tour coming up and I'm not dead yet. How would you like to attend a concert in addition to raiding the comm nets?

Comments

[thisvorlunatic]

"It's a pretty nice tail, as tails go. I admit I don't know many people with tails. Maybe you're terribly unfashionable in Hell, I wouldn't know."

[from_scratch]

"My tail is the height of fashion! I literally investigated tail fashion before I made it."

[thisvorlunatic]

Miles giggles. "And what's tail fashion like in Hell?"

[from_scratch]

"Barbed, semi-prehensile, wing-matching. There was a fox tails fad at the time too but I wasn't into it."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Picturing you with a fox tail... yeah, I can't say it's an improvement. The blue suits you."

[from_scratch]

"The fox tails were a wide variety of colors, just two-toned and fluffy. But I'm glad you approve of which way I juked on that one."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Not that anyone should ever be relying on me for fashion advice, tail-related or otherwise."

[from_scratch]

"Noted."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Reliable sources have told me that my taste in clothes ranges from moderately to painfully boring."

[from_scratch]

"I've been accused of similar, actually. This is more or less the default outfit for people in my culture and age group."

[thisvorlunatic]

Miles laughs. "At last, a kindred spirit."

[from_scratch]

"There are so many more interesting things to contemplate than what I'm wearing!"

[thisvorlunatic]

"Indeed. That's another thing I like about uniforms: someone else put in the effort to make them look good, and I get to benefit from that without having to worry about it myself."

[from_scratch]

"I have no such recourse. I'm not the rank and file type."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Well, one of my uniforms is actually hereditary. Comes with being a Vorkosigan."

[from_scratch]

"I have no such commodity as that either."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Unsurprisingly."

[from_scratch]

"Well, yes."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Anyway. Are you enjoying your media search so far?"

[from_scratch]

"The part where I actually consume the media is more fun, but on a conceptual level, yes."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Good, good."

[from_scratch]

"And again I have no tail to wag. I'd make disparaging remarks about the quality of concertgoers around here but frankly I'd have the same problem anywhere in the mortal world at home too."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Please don't disparage my concertgoers," says Miles. "I'm doing the best I can with them."

[from_scratch]

"Maybe in fifty years I can go to concerts with my limbs on."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Probably closer to a hundred, I'm sorry to say. But I do truly think I'm making a difference."