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... you are not helping at all with the slide on timing of vegetable plantings, but thank you for showing up in my story.
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"He's very difficult to say no to, you realize."
"Damn it--" Simon took in a quick breath and released it. "You've said no to all sorts of people in your life, my lady. You could manage to turn down an invitation from Harold Finch for supper at a middle-class Greek restaurant."
"You've forgotten to add 'full of terrorists,'" she noted. "Unless your objection is to the nature of the establishment or to Lieutenant Finch as my escort."
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Otherwise: drinking sencha, waiting for snow, trying hard to get the cold-sodden brain to focus on the next damn slide. I walked a mile (or so) this morning! And my knee hardly hurts at all!
(This story is at 7200 words with no sign of stopping. Not as glorious an experience as writing the first one, but it may turn out to be worth reading. We'll see.)
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"He's very difficult to say no to, you realize."
"Damn it--" Simon took in a quick breath and released it. "You've said no to all sorts of people in your life, my lady. You could manage to turn down an invitation from Harold Finch for supper at a middle-class Greek restaurant."
"You've forgotten to add 'full of terrorists,'" she noted. "Unless your objection is to the nature of the establishment or to Lieutenant Finch as my escort."
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Otherwise: drinking sencha, waiting for snow, trying hard to get the cold-sodden brain to focus on the next damn slide. I walked a mile (or so) this morning! And my knee hardly hurts at all!
(This story is at 7200 words with no sign of stopping. Not as glorious an experience as writing the first one, but it may turn out to be worth reading. We'll see.)
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Date: 2013-01-17 07:37 pm (UTC)From:Alys does that sometimes. I look forward to the results!
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Date: 2013-01-17 08:31 pm (UTC)From:"It's a broad-based objection," Simon snapped. "But yes, I am more concerned for your safety than your social reputation. Since the first is part of my job and the second..." Isn't. Aral was looking ever more entertained by their exchange, and not at all surprised at the mention of terrorists, making the nature of the earlier conversation clear. "You shouldn't risk yourself like that," he finished weakly, and then rallied to add, "I hope the Regent has told you the same."
"Oh, he's been quite eloquent on the subject," Alys said. "And I have expressed that had there been an apparent threat, which there was not, unless I have misunderstood the disinclination of conspirators to carry explosives into the place where they get their coffee, it would still have been my life to hazard and my choice to make. The coffee was rather good, too. Though the baklava was substandard."
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