Frances Lai
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
It's a nerd specific question but I admit to being an obsessed fan: what happens to the liveried butter bugs? Do they manage to catch the queen before she burrows into Vorkosigan House, or is Vorbarr Sultana overrun with them. And if so can Miles ( and his Armsman) laugh about it?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I think they did manage to catch the queen again, but a few stray liveried worker bugs would still be turning up here and there for a long time after the events of A Civil Campaign. Possibly as far as a few blocks away. Given that the bugs are clearly labeled, I can see random persons returning them to VK House for the reward if they could catch them... or generating interesting paranoid rumors about them if they couldn't.
Miles would not be much inclined to laugh till after the dividends from assorted bug enterprises started to come in. These would do quite a bit to soothe him in due course. The Armsmen, well... 20 guys, 20 possible responses, so you have a range of possibilities there. Possibly also pegged to who invested early and who didn't.
Ta, L.
I think they did manage to catch the queen again, but a few stray liveried worker bugs would still be turning up here and there for a long time after the events of A Civil Campaign. Possibly as far as a few blocks away. Given that the bugs are clearly labeled, I can see random persons returning them to VK House for the reward if they could catch them... or generating interesting paranoid rumors about them if they couldn't.
Miles would not be much inclined to laugh till after the dividends from assorted bug enterprises started to come in. These would do quite a bit to soothe him in due course. The Armsmen, well... 20 guys, 20 possible responses, so you have a range of possibilities there. Possibly also pegged to who invested early and who didn't.
Ta, L.
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