vor: (Is this one of your friends?)
Emperor Gregor Vorbarra ([personal profile] vor) wrote2012-06-11 06:37 pm

Third Cream Cake: [Action/Written]

[Sleek and dark, the new horse is a glorious bay mare the color of dark chocolate with cayenne pepper, intelligent and attentive and calm, but headstrong when she wants to go her own way. Gregor has an emotionally difficult time shacking her up in a nook in a barn in the farmlands. A proper Vor horse deserves better, but with the stables full, there’s nowhere else for her.

This morning, though, he’s riding the horse through the woods and grasslands just outside the village, looking exhilarated. With a palette swap, he could almost be back on Barrayar, near the house at Vorkosigan Surleau, with an afternoon to himself, his security perimeter tactfully out of sight and temporarily out of mind. With the exception of one or two bodyguards, of course.

After a shower and a change of clothes (a tunic, trousers, and unbuttoned vest devoid of military-esque embellishments), he steps outside looking happier than he has since his arrival, and feeling freer than he has in years. His hair has grown out of its short military burr cut, but he’s in no hurry to change it back to the Barrayaran standard. It has finally sunk in that here, he has no schedule, no expectations, no affairs. No pressure to marry and have lots and lots of kids (especially male ones). No treaties, no Cetagandan threat, no disgruntled Komarrans, no slander, no ImpSec. Just himself and a future he chooses. This is the chance he ran away for, and it doesn’t even come with consequences back home. For once, Gregor Vorbarra is in an amazingly good mood. Not that it’s easy to tell from his face.

He spends much of the afternoon converting one of the rooms in his apartment into a workout space. He then peruses the weapons’ shop for…well, okay, no, they have absolutely no stunners, plasma arcs, nerve disruptors, or needlers, and Gregor doesn’t have a way to charge them anyway. Not that he really expected a place like this to carry them. Instead, he selects an excellent, if plain, concealable dagger with a walnut grip and sound steel.

In the evening, he sits at Cloud Nine listening quietly to the music, munching an appetizer, and writing in the journal, laid flat on the bar with the cover down. He needs to tape over the name on it already, dammit.]


Does anyone need any work done?

-GB

[Filtered to Rin, 90% unhackable]

Rin, I believe you and I have a race to run.

[…Yup, definitely in a very good mood.

Run into him anytime during the day.]
herotypical: [ neutral ; angry ; crossed arms ] (✝ and through it all)

[ written ]

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-06-11 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Work?

-BS
herotypical: [ snarky ; happy ] (✝ inch by inch  - doubled over)

[ written ]

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-06-11 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Careful. An enterprising young woman might take advantage of your kindness. Especially if she finds her house in dire need of some yardwork.
herotypical: [ neutral ; angry ; snark ] (✝ i'm the hero of the story)

[ written ]

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-06-11 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Let me guess -- been bit by the restlessness bug?
herotypical: [ neutral ; sad ; arms folded ] (✝ put it in the past)

[ written ]

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-06-11 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I'm sure someone will find a use for you.
herotypical: [ snarky ; happy ] (✝ learning how to dance the rain)

[ written ]

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-06-11 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Disappointed, are you?

I suppose there are some downed winter branches in the backyard. They could use some moving.
herotypical: [ happy ; neutral ] (✝ where the lights are)

[ written ]

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-06-11 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
7. Don't get lost.
all7seas: (human nature in'it?)

[voice]

[personal profile] all7seas 2012-06-12 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
I do. I need work done. [Maybe he can get a free cat-washing out of this.] Hector's gotten into some sort of treacle-vat.
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[personal profile] cop_an_attitude 2012-06-12 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
That bored, or are you trying to get on everyone's good side?
cop_an_attitude: (Smile)

Re: [voice]

[personal profile] cop_an_attitude 2012-06-12 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
You seem in a good mood today.

[It's notable. He usually doesn't.]
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[personal profile] cop_an_attitude 2012-06-12 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Really? You ride, then? Exciting discovery; I'd be in a good mood, too. What've you named it?
rashness: (It's a feeling)

1/3 (all voice]

[personal profile] rashness 2012-06-12 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Who this- wait. WAIT Greg, right?! it had to be Greg!]

N-no way, you got that horse already?!

[first surprised]
rashness: (By the pool)

2/3

[personal profile] rashness 2012-06-12 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Then excited]

Alright! I've been waiting to test myself out and try out some landspeed! I'm going to give you run for your-!

[....And then it hits him. Wait. The only way to get a horse, apparently the only way to get anything her was missions. There's an awkward pause here of a few seconds]
rashness: (No you're wrong)

3/3

[personal profile] rashness 2012-06-12 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[So... then concerned. Because he's been avoiding missions. He doesn't like the idea of doing things like that for people who are obviously the bad guys, even if it is to get stuff. Which is why he never checks them, even when he gets notices like that urgent one he ended up looking at after Precis told him she was going (which he looked at after that to find it closed) he ignored it at the time. He's been trying to not disrespect anyone that does because, hey, stuff and they must have their reasons. But even so, Precis-

...greg must have been on this new one]


Are you okay, actually?
cop_an_attitude: (Read)

[personal profile] cop_an_attitude 2012-06-12 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
Pretty. Common name where you come from?

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