Admiral Lord Aral Vorkosigan ([personal profile] use_everything) wrote2016-02-02 11:06 am

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rathercommon: (are you insane)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2016-02-07 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Kitty grunts and nods in confirmation. ]

Yeah. We ought to be talking about this over tea, I think.

[ Though she points thereafter at Miles. ]

And that is a vile thing to say. It's one thing to lie to protect yourself. It's another altogether to lie to make people like you more. The one isn't real dishonesty, because you're not really deceiving anyone. But appropriating that horrid story - appropriating the suffering of others - to make yourself sympathetic is simply horrid.
dendarii: (solpadeine118)

[personal profile] dendarii 2016-02-07 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He grimaces a bit, not about to argue with her assessment. Or the suggestion of tea. Except to say... ]

Tactics take precedence in the end.
vorbarra: (ether-bunny58)

[personal profile] vorbarra 2016-02-09 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
... I'll do it. Come on.

[ Just going to lead Aral out and down the stairs and toward the kitchen, leaving the argument behind, if possible. ]