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"I'm all right. Mark Milesed at me."

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"Yeah, he does that."

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"It was uncanny."

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"Guess I'm used to it."

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"Well, and neither've you have ever met Miles in person. I s'pose you must've had some vid but like most people he is seldom being recorded."

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"Yeah, that's why my Miles imitation is so bad. Well, comparatively. Mark, though, he says it's like he has an internal copy of Miles's soul that he can run at will."

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"How does one come by such a thing?"

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"I'd say 'intensive study and copious torture', but that didn't give me one, so who knows."

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"Ah."
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Aaron laughs. "Sorry."

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"Not me who had to live through it."

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"True. Still, there's no call for me to make you think about it. You clearly don't think it's funny. Maybe I should be joking with your Captain Galeni instead. He had to live through Ser Galen's idea of actual parenting, God help him. What must that have been like?"

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There is a cough from the direction of the salad bar.
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"Oh, it's Junior. Hi, Junior," Aaron says sunnily. "Your old man was a vicious fucker and I'm glad I shot him. How're you doing?"

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"Aaron," says Ivan.

"Recently orphaned," snaps Galeni, "which I thought I'd already gotten over with."
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"I'd apologize, but I don't actually like lying."

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"Then perhaps you could keep your mouth shut, instead," says Galeni.

"Captain -"
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"Where's the fun in that?"

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"Find other sources. Or don't; your entertainment is not my concern."

Ivan winces and pushes his soup out of the way.
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"Anybody ever tell you you sound just like your dad?" asks Aaron. His voice is steady but his hands are shaking.

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"Vorpatril, I want you to take him back to his room," says Galeni through his teeth.

Ivan hops up to his feet.
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And Aaron shoves away from the table and launches himself at Galeni in a blind rage.
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Galeni dodges. Ivan tackles Aaron.

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Aaron is theoretically a trained assassin but at the moment he is acting more like an enraged small animal, complete with biting.

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"Ow - fuck - Aaron, calm down!" says Ivan, wrestling him into a more secure and less biting-friendly hold.

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