Miles Naismith Vorkosigan

Sorry it's taken me so long to contact you. I keep trying to tell people that the multiverse is a very big place, but somehow this hasn't quite translated into me figuring out that if I try to personally solve all of its problems the moment I find out about them, I will become perpetually busy and stressed.

Good news: Gravity friend has pulled through. I'll write out sufficient identifying information for all her notes at the end of this letter.

Alarming but ultimately positive news: Immortalization via daeva summoning has been robustly tested and proved very effective, twice. I'm going to be getting more people to try it now.

No new Ash and Stars songs to report, unfortunately. I hope you're enjoying what you have.

I'll probably be in touch again within the next week or so, at the rate I've been burning through my zorkmid reserves.

Miles

Three unrelated items:

1. The new Ash and Stars title is Burn the World, which, I feel I should clarify, is a reference to funerary practices and not... whatever that sounds like if you don't know anything about Barrayaran funerary practices. But it should be read as "poignancy, despair, extravagant grief" rather than "anarchic destruction". If you pick up this letter quickly enough, you'll get to listen to it before I do, lucky bastard.

2. My gravity friend purports to be hovering on the edge of breakthrough, so I might write you another letter any day now forwarding her schematics. Genius, alas, cannot be scheduled.

3. A looming personal crisis finally hit this morning, so I might not have time to summon you anytime soon.

Enjoy the music. I'll write you again if I think of anything else to say.

Miles