Several others were arrested for questioning as possible accomplices in the matter. Vorresiak was killed by Count Voralys's fiance, Lady Raine Vorfolse, saving Count Voralys's life. Count Voralys blocked Vorresiak's charge on the Emperor, and was stabbed by him during the melee. Count Vorguriyev and Lady Evelina Vortien were killed by the Assailant, a 'Omar Vorresiak' before an attempted assault on the Emperor. 'At the Emperor's birthday ball, an intruder slipped past Impsec screening with the help of Lord Marcel Vorevreaux. The screen read 'Emperor safe, Count Voralys in critical condition.' Vorbataille grabbed the pad, forcing one eye to focus on the smaller text. We've got to pack up and scoot to somewhere else as of twenty minute ago.' he shoved his datapad into Louis's face. Luca stared hard 'You want coffee - start a pot yourself. 'Damn, did you have to do that? Got any coffee ready?' Vorbataille used the bench to lever himself upright eyes blurred and hair swirled by an unusual breeze. 'Geet up, you Bastard light's burning and we've got to get moving.' The sound of Vorbataille hitting the floor caused his head to throb. He looked at the slumped form of Louis Vorbataille kicking him off the bench onto the rough floor. The morning light was flooding the room in the little Ranger cabin too bright for eyes that still were preserved by several bottle of high-grade rum. Luca was the first to start moving, well past sunrise. Luca sat silently, holding a glass of water with lemon.

He offered a silent toast to fortune 'To my greater future!' His glass empty, he poured himself another. carrying the finest products of Jackson's Wholes factories and labs.Ī few cases from those labs could be worth more than the entirety of the fleet that carried them. Komarr was more important to Bharaputra than his home planet - the Komarr trading fleets went everywhere. He knew he was seen as a tool of Bharaputra a lackey.īut a very valuable lackey He could enter Barrayaran space with ease - which meant Komarr orbit. Louis had met many diplomats and executive from the shadow side of the Nexus on the Whole wined and dined after he'd started running cases for Bharaputra into Barrayarans space, using his aristocratic privilege to evade tiresome customs and excise inspections. Cetaganda wanted to show the Nexus how -anyone- could share in their extreme civility, Nuevo Brasil shouted that they were oh-so-important and Barrayar - well, from Louis's view, Barrayar had all it needed for decades in Komarr and Sergyar. Except for a few denizens of the Nexus, who had the economies to support dreams and fantasies of domination. Trade with anyone who would appear was more important than political purity. Most planets and nodes in the Nexus were too poor, or too limited, to be a problem on the other side of a jump point. In the Nexus, every planet had their friends, their 'so what?' neighbors, and their 'We hate their guts' planets. The Cetas could not forget their failure, neither could Barrayar. Emperor Yuri, when he was sane, had led the final force to press the Cetagandans to leave more by diplomatic pressure arranged by his half-brother Prince Xav,than by force of arms. Growing up on Barrayar meant learning to fear and hate Cetaganda - the double decade occupation of Barrayar by the Cetas burned scars into every District, into every family. Louis knew, in a roundabout way, that the shadow in the corner was Cetaganda source of too much trouble and dissension in the Nexus. Behind them were a dozen other Jackson's Whole houses - forming a clique that had a collective hatred of Admiral Miles Naismith, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, and anything involving Barrayar.

Behind Luca was Luigi and Lotus Bharaputra, owners and rulers of House Bharaputra. Luca Tarpan seemed to have an infinite collection of contacts on Barrayar and Komarr, decided Louis. Louis Vorbataille unscrewed the top from the bottle of rum.

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