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[The feed clicks on to a very pale man gone slightly paler than normal. He has dark hair and dark eyes, and his face is extremely carefully controlled, doing his best to conceal worry.]

Ah... hello. My name is Greg. I'm not sure if anyone can help me, but has anyone seen a man named Miles Vorkosigan lately? He's about four foot nine, grey eyes. He talks very quickly. [His mouth twitches.] You'll know him if you've met him, believe me. He is-- [Gregor gropes briefly for a polite turn of phrase and rejects several internal attempts before he finishes] --extremely distinctive.

At any rate, is anyone able to locate him? He hasn't been responding to my calls, and while that is not particularly unusual in and of itself, he usually comes home every once in a while, and he hasn't turned up at work. I'm starting to worry. I-- [He stops, struggling briefly.] He's my foster-brother. I'd just like to know where he is. Miles, if you can see this, kindly drop me a line to let me know you aren't dead in an air vent somewhere, please. I'd appreciate it.

Thank you very much.

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( ivan looks up from where he's going through the network on his mid, shooting gregor a look and a very relaxed shrug. he's stretched out on his bed, which makes the shrugging difficult, but it's the thought that counts. )

It's Miles, Gregor. He's probably off doing something that's nearly going to get himself killed and then come back just fine.

Yes, but, unlike you, I am accustomed to receiving semi-regular reports from Miles.

[He huffs out a breath and sits up, his eyes narrowing slowly.]

This... to disappear in a situation like this--I'm not entirely sure if it's like him. I'm concerned.

( ivan slides off his bed to grab the note that was attached to miles with gregor brought him back. snickering again, he moves to open the door to stick it under the sign that reads "кВОРтира". gotta warn people what they're getting into, after all. )

He probably thinks he doesn't have to, now that he's not Admiral Naismith or whatever. Which ( Ivan leans back into the room, fixing Gregor with a look ) you think he maybe's gone a little crazy without everyone propping him up like that? You weren't on Earth, Gregor. Before he got kidnapped and switched out with his clone. He got a little nuts.

( this, ivan thinks, is a delicately put summation of the shit he was dragged through on that planet. )

Edited 2015-09-29 04:19 (UTC)

Mmmmm.

[Gregor rests his elbows on his knees, steeples his fingers, and presses them lightly to his lips in deep consideration.]

I'm not so sure, Ivan. I mean--it's possible that he's gone a little crazy, and I honestly don't care whether or not he writes formal written reports anymore since I suspect that getting them straight instead of filtered through Simon would send me into semi-regular cardiac arrest, but this just seems... off. [He shrugs.] Hopefully it's nothing, but I think we can't afford to take any chances, considering everything else that's going on.

'A little crazy'. ( ivan repeats, squinting. ) So what, we go out looking for him? You just put out a notice for him, that should be good enough.

( it is not good enough. ivan knows this, and is resigned to a more involved fate. )

...no. I don't believe we should go looking for him. I'm just... concerned.

You're always concerned, Gregor. That's a constant state of mind for you.

( he's just saying. )

Miles'll be fine. It's Miles.

I didn't see him again after he was dropped off.

I see.

I don't suppose you'd care to explain the series of events that led up to him being handed to me bound in duct tape? Not that I don't understand the impulse to gag Miles, I've spoken to him, but I admit I'm curious.

He compared working in sanitation to a prison camp. I was in a very bad war. I've had pretty bad jobs. It rubbed me the wrong way.

But is like his stupid to mouth filter is turned off. Nothing stops him from talking- even when he was drunk he didn't speak as this.

[Gregor looks startled, then concerned.]

No, you're right, that's not like him at all. He's been in a prison camp, it was... [Gregor trails off. He's seen the footage, and his lips thin slowly.] It was not very much like anything on this ship, whether he enjoys his sanitation job or not.

I'm sorry. [Honestly, his face clearing as he watches Niko's over the feed. He wonders briefly when Niko saw Miles drunk but that's not high enough on his priority list to divert the conversation just now.] I think Miles is likely sorry too, if he's got his head back on straight, wherever he is now. He was not... particularly kind to me, either, after I collected him, and his behavior was extremely erratic. I'm not excusing the things he said, but this just confirms my worry that something out of the ordinary may have happened to him.

Hopefully he didn't talk this way to someone who isn't trying as hard as me to be good. It's not exactly a good time for him to be roaming free.

I hope so, too. [Politely.] Thank you for not breaking my foster-brother, the repairs tend to be rather expensive.

Yeah. Sorry about the fingers. Didn't know he is so easy to fall apart.

Not your fault. A few of his bones have been replaced with sturdier synthetics, but not his fingers. He's broken them by accident himself often enough, and I set them all right.

It is good that someone has practice.

Sorry about your brother though, ah? Good luck in finding him.

Thank you. Please let me know if you see him.

Miles is the guy in sanitation, right?

When you say he comes back every once in a while, how often would you say that is? I'm trying to establish a baseline.

Yes. It varies... wildly, generally speaking. But it seems unlike him to disappear under these particular circumstances, with everything else so uncertain.

Do you think he's still on the planet? I've noticed a change in the mood of most people on the ship, he might have tried to avoid everyone for now.

I know Miles. Do you think he would stay on the ship?

[Gregor's face calcifies slowly, and he goes extremely still as he tries to think of a word foul enough in the face of this sudden insight, fails, and gives up.]

No. No, I don't think he'd necessarily do that at all.

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Yeah, I didn't think so either. I'm going to the surface now, I'll find him.

[He hesitates a moment, helplessly.]

Well--if you've already decided to go, I won't dissuade you, but I know it could be dangerous. Please let me know if you see him.

I can handle myself, don't worry. I'll contact you as soon as I know anything.

nice to meet ya, greg. i'm eggsy.

and no, haven't seen anyone named miles around. you do somethin' to piss him off?

[Could be the reason why.]

Nice to meet you. And, not of which I am aware. If he was upset with me--upset enough to go missing--I would like to think he would tell me so.

oh, so you's two are close?

i ain't lucky enough to know someone here, but that's awesome you do.

Yes, I have a couple of family members who arrived with me. Miles is technically a cousin of mine but... we're close. We grew up together.

i hope you find him. have you looked around a bit. maybe checked down there?

[Eggsy had stumbled across some shadier areas on the planet, and maybe Miles had found them, too.]

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