cross_and_bow: (i ~ meh)
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Bella has just been to visit the Mikleeeeeeeee. It went well, after she flared aura and shouted abuse at the crown prince. (Demonstrating this form of "heedless confrontationalism", it was explained by a quarter-Mikleeeeeeeee girl James found for her to talk to, an essential part of the species' diplomatic process. This held up under lie-detection, but Bella found a few examples via pastwatching before actually doing it.) They have a treaty; they're going to get back to her with revisions they'd like made to their dimension and they're going to end the five hundred year "human season".

Now she's between tasks, hanging out in one of the Jarvises.

Date: 2013-05-29 11:20 pm (UTC)
grabsthebutt: Amused or exasperated. (⑽ you think you're hilarious don't you)
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Val says, "What?"

Date: 2013-05-29 11:20 pm (UTC)
newtimov: (⑽ please allow me to explain)
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"You are the nearest ithue," Ike points out mildly.

Date: 2013-05-29 11:25 pm (UTC)
newtimov: (⑻ on the pensive phone)
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"Ithuetse are - mediators. Diplomats," says Ike. "Which is hilarious to us, because Val is the least mediated person I know, but it's taken pretty seriously around Siathe in general. You're not going to get anywhere trying any kind of official diplomatic contact unless you can find an ithue and convince them to talk to everybody else for you."

Date: 2013-05-29 11:29 pm (UTC)
grabsthebutt: Wearing a hat and looking disinclined to put up with anyone's shit. (Default)
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"Sure," snorts Val. "I'll talk to your personnel officer. Who'll tell you I'm about as diplomatic as a punch in the face."

"Which might be a little less true if you punched people less often," observes Eiva.

Date: 2013-05-29 11:32 pm (UTC)
newtimov: (⑹ having a very cuddly orgasm)
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"No indeed! No people get eaten around Siathe," says Ike.

Date: 2013-05-29 11:34 pm (UTC)
newtimov: (⑻ on the pensive phone)
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"Oh, did you do that? Of course you did that," says Ike. "I can't imagine how I could ever have thought anyone else did that."

Date: 2013-05-29 11:38 pm (UTC)
newtimov: (⑷ failing not to smirk)
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"Word just kind of gets around," he says.

Date: 2013-05-29 11:53 pm (UTC)
grabsthebutt: Arms crossed, gazing into the camera with moderate impatience. (⑼ whatcha lookin' at?)
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"Because we ershil," says Val, which is the first-person form of a verb meaning what ithuetse do when they touch their glowy white parts together. "How good's your language thing, anyway? Do I need to explain that?"

Date: 2013-05-30 12:47 am (UTC)
grabsthebutt: Smirking or giggling. (⑸ ehehehe!)
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"You could say that," she snorts. "If I touch my iethat to another ithue's, we can kind of... pass thoughts back and forth, I guess you'd say. Remember when I said you couldn't," she drops into English, "shake tentacles," and back to Kiessa, "with anybody? That's what I was talking about. Around here it's the only way to get really serious talking done."

Date: 2013-05-30 12:51 am (UTC)
grabsthebutt: Arms crossed, gazing into the camera with moderate impatience. (⑼ whatcha lookin' at?)
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"Faster, more trustworthy, almost impossible for there to be a misunderstanding unless one of the ithuetse misunderstands whoever they're speaking for... and it's a cultural thing, yeah. Big-time."

Date: 2013-05-30 01:12 am (UTC)
grabsthebutt: Smirking, glancing to the side. (⑶ it is the Hour of Smirk)
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"I know, eh? Too bad I am otherwise the most terrible diplomat."

Date: 2013-05-30 01:26 am (UTC)
grabsthebutt: Smirking, biting lip. (⑷ now let's do something hilarious)
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"Okay, I could probably manage it," she concedes.

Date: 2013-05-30 01:29 am (UTC)
grabsthebutt: Smiling, maybe thoughtfully. (⑹ yes this one may live)
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"Cool," says Val. "Do you still wanna look around and stuff?"

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