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Nov. 30th, 2005 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gabriel_tamIn the last three days, Regan has cancelled appointments, rescheduled luncheons, and generally let it be known that she would be away for a bit, accompanying her husband on a business trip. It does not escape her notice that it might be just as well to get in the habit of traveling with him more, if he intends to move forward with the campaign.
She's spent much of the rest of the time packing and repacking unnecessarily-- anything to occupy her hands and quiet her thoughts.
He, in his turn, has arranged for a few meetings to take place on different planets along the way. It's easy enough to do: although much business can take place over the Cortex, link and screen, the highest powered mergers still tend for the older methods of negotiation. Personal touch and charismatic presence, meetings and handshakes and eye-to-eye speech are all still vitally important in the business of business, and Gabriel Tam has always been one of Birnam Corp's stars when it comes to such things.
One of the meetings he arranges just happens to be located on Lavinia, not all that far from a certain door.
The groundwork has been laid, and it's time.
She's spent much of the rest of the time packing and repacking unnecessarily-- anything to occupy her hands and quiet her thoughts.
He, in his turn, has arranged for a few meetings to take place on different planets along the way. It's easy enough to do: although much business can take place over the Cortex, link and screen, the highest powered mergers still tend for the older methods of negotiation. Personal touch and charismatic presence, meetings and handshakes and eye-to-eye speech are all still vitally important in the business of business, and Gabriel Tam has always been one of Birnam Corp's stars when it comes to such things.
One of the meetings he arranges just happens to be located on Lavinia, not all that far from a certain door.
The groundwork has been laid, and it's time.
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Date: 2005-12-01 03:57 am (UTC)So Regan only has a small bag of sundries when she comes down the stairs. A few things too precious to trust to cargo; a few things she just wanted to have ready to hand.
Lavinia is days away. Therefore, it makes no sense to feel her heart speed up with worry and fear and anticipation. She breathes in, and out -- I will be as stone, I will be as water -- and smiles at her husband as he steps into the entrance hall.
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Date: 2005-12-01 04:02 am (UTC)"Shall we?"
There's more to the question than the light surface tone might reveal, and his look is carefully assessing. If she changes her mind, even now, he doesn't plan to gainsay her.
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Date: 2005-12-01 04:03 am (UTC)Except she is. Oh, god, is she.
Lavinia's days away and already she's fretting herself to pieces. Stop that, she tells herself sternly, and she stops that, because if there is one thing Regan Tam has learned in life it's how to master herself. Even when everything else has fallen to pieces, there's that.
So she doesn't hesitate and her expression doesn't flicker, as she curls her fingers around his arm, and resettles the handle of the bag in her hand.
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Date: 2005-12-01 04:14 am (UTC)