After the ghem-colonel has departed, Vorob'yev appears, accompanied by a man he introduces as Vorreedi. Vorob'yev compliments Miles on the conduction of his interview - open question who interviewed whom, really - and Vorreedi, perhaps charmed by Miles's interest in detective work, suggests arranging tours of local police organizations, declined due to lack of time.
Ivan also receives invitations, of which he will have to decline at least some due to lack of time - apparently the two ghem-ladies he absconded with at Yenaro's party and one of their friends are inviting him to things. Him alone. He declines to turn this into further opportunities for Miles's spidery behavior. Miles can meet the people he's directly interested in at official functions without intruding on Ivan's social ones.
Miles's next official function (Ivan bows out, claiming weariness from social engagements and further, contradictory and smugly exhausting, invitations), Miles is accompanied by Mia Maz and Vorob'yev both, and they are seated in much lower-status positions than the white-robed haut-men and the white-bubbled haut-women. There is a considerable amount of high-quality, subtly-read poetry from the haut-men (Maz explains that the women did their own similar ceremony the day before), which gets very wearing after long enough. The satrap governors go last. (Maz says that many of these poems have been ghostwritten by haut-ladies.)
Then: food.
Here there is an unbubbled haut-woman, not on a float chair at all: some ghem-general's award, dramatically older than Linyabel, silver-blonde and very closed in towards herself in the body language as she moves around. And another, over there, brown-haired and cinnamon-eyed, accompanying another husband-winner of the same presumable rank. (Maz seems to be making desperate facial expressions about them.)
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Date: 2014-07-12 03:37 am (UTC)Ivan also receives invitations, of which he will have to decline at least some due to lack of time - apparently the two ghem-ladies he absconded with at Yenaro's party and one of their friends are inviting him to things. Him alone. He declines to turn this into further opportunities for Miles's spidery behavior. Miles can meet the people he's directly interested in at official functions without intruding on Ivan's social ones.
Miles's next official function (Ivan bows out, claiming weariness from social engagements and further, contradictory and smugly exhausting, invitations), Miles is accompanied by Mia Maz and Vorob'yev both, and they are seated in much lower-status positions than the white-robed haut-men and the white-bubbled haut-women. There is a considerable amount of high-quality, subtly-read poetry from the haut-men (Maz explains that the women did their own similar ceremony the day before), which gets very wearing after long enough. The satrap governors go last. (Maz says that many of these poems have been ghostwritten by haut-ladies.)
Then: food.
Here there is an unbubbled haut-woman, not on a float chair at all: some ghem-general's award, dramatically older than Linyabel, silver-blonde and very closed in towards herself in the body language as she moves around. And another, over there, brown-haired and cinnamon-eyed, accompanying another husband-winner of the same presumable rank. (Maz seems to be making desperate facial expressions about them.)