Yeah, I just bet it was. ( a respectful silence as ivan imagines this further with a distracted gleam in his eyes. it gets rather cloudy as bel continues talking, and then he stumbles slowly to a halt. ) Er. You're not planning on wearing it topless, are you? And what counts as a special occasion?

( just so he can not be around for that. )

That he's one of the main reasons we're not the Ninth Satrapy. That it's his doing that Yuri Vorbarra's Civil War happened in the first place, because apparently no one thought it was a bad idea to leave him alive after killing his wife, two of his kids, and all of his in-laws and their families? A right, proper Conservative terror -- the last of the old Vor. You know, the usual stuff.