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Three unrelated items:
1. The new Ash and Stars title is Burn the World, which, I feel I should clarify, is a reference to funerary practices and not... whatever that sounds like if you don't know anything about Barrayaran funerary practices. But it should be read as "poignancy, despair, extravagant grief" rather than "anarchic destruction". If you pick up this letter quickly enough, you'll get to listen to it before I do, lucky bastard.
2. My gravity friend purports to be hovering on the edge of breakthrough, so I might write you another letter any day now forwarding her schematics. Genius, alas, cannot be scheduled.
3. A looming personal crisis finally hit this morning, so I might not have time to summon you anytime soon.
Enjoy the music. I'll write you again if I think of anything else to say.
Miles
thisvorlunatic
middlingalong
"...Hi, Mark. I assume you are not actually a basement monster. What did you tell him?"
middlingalong
"Wasn't exactly being stealthy. Why are you behind the crate of zorkmids? I'm not going to be horrified by the sight of you, I look at Miles all the time."
thisvorlunatic
"He's been there for half an hour," says Miles. "You are not the cause of the hiding. Mark, why are you hiding?"
middlingalong
"Well, since he's apparently decided he prefers not to come out and meet me I'll just get out of your hair, shall I."
thisvorlunatic
Miles makes a this-is-what-I've-been-dealing-with-all-
thisvorlunatic
"No, you heard him right. Mark, care to explain what hidden assumptions you left out this time?"
middlingalong
"Because the alternative appears to be being very depressing about it instead? Go on, come out."
middlingalong
"I have people skills. 'S a thing. Though I admit I wasn't particularly trying to charm Mark."