Pull point plot!

[vorbarra]

WHO: Vorsoaps family and others.
WHERE: Probably mostly DC#7, but all over.
WHEN: March 27 - April 6
WHAT: Ageswap shenanigans ahoy.
WARNINGS: None, actually, except for rampant spoilers for the whole series, most likely, so if you care about that sort of thing, be warned!

Comments

[keep_nothing]

Almost forty, but doesn't mean I necessarily want a repeat of that aspect of it.

[use_everything]

Forty years... [There was a bright reverence there.] It truly was a life together... I could want for nothing else.

Perhaps a daughter with more skill with communication, I'll grant.

[keep_nothing]

Hopefully one of them will be.

[use_everything]

Planning on two?

[keep_nothing]

I think I can get as many as six.

[use_everything]

Ah.

That. Will be a handful alone.

[keep_nothing]

There might be more too, beyond Miles' brood, that is.

[use_everything]

[Please hold. Grandchildren? The final fruition of the curses of adolescence. The "I hope you have kids JUST LIKE YOU." can finally see its root.]

A brood? Have I met them? How many is a brood?

[keep_nothing]

[ She pulls her head up to watch his face, her smile growing more in warmth than in the conflicted joy it's had up to now. ]

You've met four of his six.

[use_everything]

[He sits back, a certain satisfaction in that.]

Hm.

[keep_nothing]

He likes twins, though the middle two weren't.

[use_everything]

[That... surprises a loud, simple laugh from him. Of COURSE two at once.]

Good god, did someone tell him that parenting was a challenge?

[keep_nothing]

He won't hear of it. You know how he gets once his mind is set on something.

[use_everything]

I hope his wife was informed and prepared.

[keep_nothing]

Oh, she's made of sterner stuff than she seems.

[use_everything]

I imagine she must. Ah, given his troubles here. ... As they were here.

[keep_nothing]

They had an unconventional beginning. It rather set the tone.

[use_everything]

I would be more shocked to hear it was a social call that made it to marriage.

[keep_nothing]

Ha. No, the actual, honest to God social event he arranged for it was a disaster. One we walked in on at the very end only to bump into her fleeing the house. It wasn't a good time for him, but he made it all right in the end.

[use_everything]

Fleeing.

[keep_nothing]

The story of events as it was explained to us later was in a word, horrific.

[ A beat. ] And in another word, utterly Milesian.

[use_everything]

[That gets another laugh from him.] There's an encompassing word.

You mentioned Sergyar, though..

[keep_nothing]

I did. After your Regency, Gregor asked you to stay on as Prime Minister, and after that, the Viceroy of Sergyar with me as Vicerine in my own right.

[use_everything]

Do you know, I've had Sergyar offered to me as both a bribe and a threat, but never as retirement.

[keep_nothing]

For variable definitions of the word "retire" ...

But who offered the bribe and threat?