#otilia.

Ziz: ::does not even get a moment of trying to hold it off, is soon screaming and writhing against an invisible piece of furniture not being rendered by the holoemitter:: YES! Yes, that detail is missing from so much holographic communication in scifi! Fucking yes! **** Eallair: ::is standing with her arms crossed, looking impatient:: Zadia: ::there's a young girl sitting at a table who sits up suddenly when they come in, staring at Audra:: Valen: ::sounds calm, but:: You should not have brought her here. My mind was bubbling with the question: Where was Otilia? (The nanny. Girl Genius name.) After a little contemplation, the answer came to me: Eallair is terrible at this. Not just terrible, hostile towards it. She doesn't like Zane, and doesn't like being saddled with his spawn. The girl herself is fine enough, it's just the concept. And the concept comes with a nanny who does not like seeing her charge slighted. Yeah, that annoyance got ditched a few planets ago, and can I offload the brat now? **** Zadia: I'm gonna be a soldier, and I'm gonna be New War's favorite, but the others'll like me too. It's disrespectful of her to call Zane "New War." Once the Hand of War has been raised, he is War. To get a sense of how serious this is: No Hand would dream of referring to Zane as "New War." One of them could say "I wish you'd never become a Hand" to his face (and this has happened), but he'd still be War. No qualifier. No adjective. Just War. Zane. Is. War. It's a thing for Zadia because she always knew Kala as "War" and Zane as "Dad" and she had trouble adjusting. She also had trouble adjusting to "New Wealth."