LINKDING

<blockquote>“You didn’t tell Illyan the truth about your little topple off the balcony, did you.” [...] “...how did you know?” “He doesn’t talk about you with secret terror in his eyes.” - The Vor Game, Chapter 17 In another timeline, Gregor makes a different choice. (And Miles underestimates Illyan.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>"It doesn't matter how drunk I get. I don't forget any of it."</blockquote>

<blockquote>A moment from a Jackson's Whole childhood.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Lady Therese Vorkalloner," Esterhazy announces. He ushers her in and then makes a discreet retreat. Aral pushes himself up higher in the chair and looks at his ex-wife. He can't recall when he had last seen her. Their circles haven't crossed very much since her remarriage and, when they have, she's made it clear that they've already said all they've needed to each other. But she's not the first one of Aral's old enemies to come see him on his sick bed.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ivan had promised his mother that he wouldn't leave the Academy.</blockquote> ➤ I love Ivan so much

<blockquote>The Imperial Auditors review a Time of Isolation murder case.</blockquote> ➤ Note that Miles' allusion at the end isn't actually supposed to be something the reader is able to follow, though the comments also have intriguing theories

<blockquote>Elena Bothari is eighteen years old when Tante Cordelia, no, Countess Vorkosigan tells her about her mother. They'd been talking about the plans for the trip to Beta Colony and Elena had brought up trying to find her mother. And then... and then she'd found out that everyone had lied to her for her entire life. That everyone had known where she had come from. That they'd lied to her every day they never told her. That they gave her to the man who tortured and raped her mother to raise as his daughter. Elena doesn't want to, or even need to, hear why they'd done it. This is Barrayar. It's about honor. It's always about honor. But no one had cared about her honor.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Miles Vorkosigan is seventeen years old, he enters Hassadar District University to become an astrocartographer like his mother before him.</blockquote> ➤ YESSSS

<blockquote>Gregor carries her mother's vorfemme knife.</blockquote> ➤ trans Gregor who must remain closeted

<blockquote>Ivan and Simon get drunk and talk about porn.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Cordelia's first day of snow.</blockquote>

<blockquote>After Vordarian, it takes time to rebuild, both buildings and trust.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Count Piotr is never permitted to be alone with Miles.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Pierre Vorrutyer leaves the countship to his cousin By -- if he can be persuaded to take it.</blockquote> ➤ Stands well on its own but I'd love to have more in this au!

<blockquote>Five occasions upon which Simon found it necessary to watch pornography for the good of the Imperium.</blockquote>

<blockquote>There are ordinary bad ideas. And there is making Byerly Vorrutyer head of ImpSec.</blockquote>

<blockquote>On the second day of Vordarian's Pretendership, Count Vorhalas has an unwelcome visitor.</blockquote> ➤ Love the ending, honorable enemies

<blockquote>Count Dono Vorrutyer gets curious about Escobar.</blockquote> ➤ (Dono doesn't ever get a conclusive answer. But he suspects.)

<blockquote>"ImpSec is my ... intelligence utility." - Miles in Diplomatic Immunity. Miles started young.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ivan agrees to smuggle a teenaged girl onto Jackson's Whole, for totally moral purposes. Naturally, this is the entire Vorrutyer family's fault.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Udine helps Pidge with her homework and arranges a murder.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Alys, Kou and baby Ivan flee Vordarian. A missing subplot from Barrayar</blockquote>

<blockquote>Light and genteel laughter spilled out of the foyer. A large group of Barrayar's high society had just arrived, clustering in small groups as they waited to be greeted by the Emperor. Ivan hesitated on the edge of the group, mind racing in circles as he scanned the crowd. He resisted the urge to rub at the spreading patches of red on his hands. I don't want anything to do with this.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Somewhere in this party," said Captain Illyan, "there are four Cetagandan assassins."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Put together Lord Mark Pierre Vorkosigan with Count Dono Vorrutyer, too much alcohol, and a party full of High Vor. What could go wrong?</blockquote>

<blockquote>A well-trained dog obeys his master, but the very best dogs know when to refuse to obey.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Gregor Vorbarra was not a man born to be Emperor. Sequel to I Dwell In Possibility.</blockquote>

<blockquote>She watched a small boy of no more than three run in wobbling elliptical loops around his patient older sister, who had tied a length of ribbon to his overall strap as a preventative measure, and considered orbital mechanics.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Wrong place, wrong time, wrong person, and the consequences thereof. Diverges between Mirror Dance and Memory.</blockquote> ➤ in which Miles' seizures are acccidentally revealed to Gregor

<blockquote>Dono and Byerly, just after the Council of Counts vote in A Civil Campaign.</blockquote>