CryoBurn! Spoilerrific!

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Also, welp. I guess I better get on with writing that Aral/Jole fic. I SAY IT'S CANON FOR REALS NOW. HE WAS SERVING ON SERGYAR. AND A PALLBEARER. AND FOLLOWED ARAL TO SERGYAR. Oh man I want to write Jole's Aftermaths drabble but I don't know if I actually could. (Cordelia didn't find Aral. Who did?)

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Also also, Vorlynkin is like thirty seconds away from buying Jin and Mina their own ponies, isn't he? I really rather enjoyed Cryoburn as a Miles adventure, and was delighted by Ekaterin's message from home, which was slightly more news from the home front than I expected knowing it was Miles and Roic off on a planet we never saw before. Lizzie! Taurie! HELLION! Sasha-Xander-Lexie-A.A.-Alex! (;____;) And I was UNSPEAKABLY DELIGHTED to have Mark and Kareen show up, that was gorgeous and awesome and fantastic, watching the boys each working their angle, having come as far as they have toward being brothers and a species of friends. Mark! You're getting there!

And I did not see the ending coming at all despite what was in retrospect considerable foreshadowing--I mean, I got it when they spotted Vorventa, but not before then--because I am slow like that. But I think I was half-expecting it, at the same time--I've been discussing and considering Aral's Death as an inevitable plot event in these books since, uh, probably since Mirror Dance? So very nearly as long as I've been reading them; since I was thirteen or so. And I think Cordelia's drabble is right: there were worse fates possible for him. This one's only natural, in the end; I mean, that's the whole thesis of the book, really. But oh, Aral. And oh, oh, baby Lord Vorkosigan. Aral, now? (At least he had his mama to tell him, and not some random servant shaking him awake in the night. Poor Ekaterin.) Oh, everyone.

And I can go read Shards any time I like and Aral is always not only alive but one of the fittest men in his command.

Over forty.

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Man, I need to write the story where he meets Eleven, too.

Also, TAURA. Even more inevitable than Aral, but. OH TAURA. OH ROIC, at her bedside, begging her to take a chance on cryofreezing. And now cautiously courting Miss Pym. And. Oh. EVERYONE. Quick and dead alike.



Also, VividCon was awesome, and I am extra extremely glad this year that I took the Monday recovery day off of work. I needed it even without calculating in Cryoburn.

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Yeah, I think a lot of this book was about needing to write Aral's death and that being the only way she could--my assumption was that that would be the last Miles book, because she'd felt the need to do it somehow and that was it, but maybe now that this is out of the way there could be all the After books....

Or even just Ivan: His Book. I will take that.

And now that I've got the hardcover in hand, I want to reread CryoBurn when it's not, you know, all in one night and rushing to the end to find out the dreaded eventuality. (I got spoiled in a really weird way, let me just say: someone mentioned in a cut tag that there was new canon about Jole, which convinced me that there had to be something about Aral, which made me frantic to find out what and whether I was, somehow, jossed.)