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Linya avoids haring off to do things much while Miles's arms are unusable. Once he can feed himself comfortably enough to prefer to do so, though, she makes plans with Ekaterin to go with her and little Nikki on a hike in some nice woods of mixed-origin fauna. She packs a picnic and takes the lightflyer and flies out to pick up the relevant subset of Vorsoissons.
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isthisart
Linya produces her pen and calls up a nexus map. "Here's Barrayar. If you want to get anywhere from here you need to go through Komarr, here, which is five jumps -" She traces out the route. "And then if you want to go to Eta Ceta, you go this way." She traces the whole route. "And it takes two weeks cooped up in a ship!"
first-loyalty
"Two weeks is a long time," says Nikki.
"It's a lot longer than fifteen minutes," says Ekaterin.
"It's a lot longer than fifteen minutes," says Ekaterin.
isthisart
"I got a lot of work done. I've been on longer trips, though. I went all the way from here to Earth once, but I stopped on the way."
isthisart
"Here," she points, "at Escobar, and here at Tau Ceti. So I didn't spend that long on a ship all at once on my way to Earth, but I only stopped at Escobar on my way back and only for a day."
isthisart
"It took me twenty-four days to get from Earth back to Barrayar."
isthisart
"Yep. Two and a half. But I was on Earth for months, so it seemed worth it."
isthisart
"I had lots of fun! I saw interesting Earth things - there's so much pretty scenery and so many old buildings! - and I got lots of work done and I convinced a friend to move to Komarr so I could visit him without spending months in jumpships."
isthisart
"Just about. Some of the ships go a little faster if nobody on them gets jumpsick."
isthisart
"It does sound that way. I don't know what it's like, I don't get sick on jumps at all. My friend from Earth does, though. He had to make the trip back extra slowly so he wouldn't be jumping every day."
first-loyalty
"Is jumpsick throw-up sick or sneezy sick or yucky sick?" he asks next.
isthisart
"Mostly the first kind," says Linya. "Yucky sick sometimes too, if it's really bad. I have never heard of jumping making anybody sneeze."
first-loyalty
"Neither have I," says Ekaterin.
"Sneezy's not so bad. The other ones are worse," says Nikki.
"Sneezy's not so bad. The other ones are worse," says Nikki.
isthisart
"Are they?" Linya's not entirely sure she can recall ever suffering any of the above, so he's the expert here. "Well, I hope you don't get jumpsick if you ever go to another planet."
first-loyalty
"I hope so too," says Ekaterin.
"I bet I won't," says Nikki, optimistically.
"I bet I won't," says Nikki, optimistically.
isthisart
"It's a big dome that keeps the air inside. Komarr doesn't have nice air on the rest of it."