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Princess and Countess Olivia Vorbarra Vorkosigan ([personal profile] truevor) wrote in [community profile] forbarrayar 2017-02-06 05:50 pm (UTC)

It's an impressive list of qualifications, when told as such. Olivia listens impassively -- Rani need not sell the girl so hard, but she appreciates the effort to lay out her qualifications so thoroughly. As if the young woman was from a time and place where that was of no concern. So beyond her protection, were they to teach her how to play the game as they know it? It would be difficult, but not impossible.

If the girl should choose to accept, that is. "To take you on as a maid, a lady-in-waiting. It would provide you with some measure of security, as young and as unwed as you are. But more importantly, it would give you the chance to take up arms again, outside any of your other duties in the camp." She is no Vor woman, but Olivia knows that arming them is the easiest part, once Piotr comes around to it. Knives first, to set the others at ease.

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