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gloriousdawn

"Huh, a little bit," says Solvei. "—Uh, earlier Sis kept getting pissed off at Mark for being able to half read our damn mind, and the phrase she used as shorthand for this was 'outside view', because that's sort of the relevant factor from her perspective, the fact that Mark sees his Miles from the outside so he knows what it looks like when various things are happening in a Miles's brain so he has a well-developed ability to guess what we're thinking. Sis is starting to pick up the skill."

unmarred

"Outside view," Inlaith repeats thoughtfully. "Yeah."

"I'm picking up the generalized version with pleasing rapidity," says Mark.

Milo of Raxwell

first-and-final

"I hate to have to ask," says Milan, "but, 'Sis'...?"

gloriousdawn

"I am both a Miles and a Mark!" says Solvei. "Currently a Miles, but Sis - who has no name, if you were wondering - is in here listening. And wow I just realized these nametags don't show who you're an instance of. We are all fools. Somebody pass me a bunch more nametags and a marker."

middlingalong

Aurin gets some from Bar and tosses them to Solvei.

gloriousdawn

She catches them. "Thanks. Okay, gather round, my pretties."

And she writes out updated Miles-and-sibling nametags as follows:

Name: Miles Vorkosigan
Instance Of: Miles
World: Nexus

Name: Mark Vorkosigan
Instance Of: Mark
World: Nexus

Name: Stalas Aeducan
Instance Of: Miles
World: Thedas

Name: Mialavaraaninah
Instance Of: Miles
World: Elcenia

Name: Milo of Raxwell
Instance Of: Miles
World: Chronicle

Name: Solvei Koskin
Instance Of: Miles, Mark (ask me how!)
World: Wish

Name: Ashras Kevarsin
Instance Of: Miles
World: Suranse

Name: Inlaith Kevarsin
Instance Of: Mark
World: Suranse

Name: Elarron Kevarsin
Instance Of: Elarron
World: Suranse

Name: Milan Kosorin
Instance Of: Miles
World: Hubris

"Do you want me to do yours too?" she asks, glancing at the Ivans as she passes Milan his updated nametag.

middlingalong

"Sure, go for it," says Ivan.

gloriousdawn

Ivans get updated nametags.

"There, that's better."

Jann of Raxwell

abeance

"We don't have a pun reason to use 'Ivan' as our collective name," Jann muses.

middlingalong

"There was another one also named that, though, and I was here first."

gloriousdawn

"And it's reasonably tidy that instances of Miles and Mark are named after their Nexus incarnations. You have an opportunity to continue this pattern and no especially good reason not to, as far as I can see," says Solvei.

Elarron Kevarsin

near-the-sun

"If there was a Nexus version of me, I wouldn't mind ceding the collective to him," says Elarron. "...There isn't, right?"

unmarred

"Not as far as we know," says Mark. "Although of course it's hard to be sure."

Inlaith looks curiously at him.

Elarron Kevarsin

near-the-sun

"It surely isn't that easy to misplace a triplet...?"

middlingalong

"Theirs is not a situation of a multiple birth."

Elarron Kevarsin

near-the-sun

Miles Naismith Vorkosigan

"What the fuck's it a situation of, then?"

thisvorlunatic

"Cloning," says Miles.

unmarred

"In," Mark glances at Milan, "some Science Fantasy Lands, it's possible to produce an identical twin of someone if you have a little piece of them to copy from. Someone stole a little piece of Miles and made me, intending that I would kill and impersonate him and then murder his family. I decided I would rather not do that."

gloriousdawn

"Waaaaaait," says Solvei, staring at Inlaith.

Ravni Koskin

thisbrokenworld

Not-Solvei continues the thought. "You escaped the horrible Mark suffering?"

unmarred

"...I, er. Apparently?" says Inlaith.

"You're so much like me," marvels Mark.

Ravni Koskin

thisbrokenworld

"Yeah, same," says not-Solvei. "Like. I. How?"

unmarred

"I am looking at an alt of myself who has never been tortured," says Mark. "I don't know how to feel about this."

"Neither do I," says Inlaith.

middlingalong

"I mean, hopefully it doesn't mean he's due?"

unmarred