Spiral nebula - Chapter 16
Steam rose in small wispy plumes, being sucked up into a vent to be condensed and recycled. Underneath the steam wisps and the hot water that created the steam stood Yukiomaru. His eyes were closed but he was gazing up at the source of light in deep...
The Diplomat
A small, unrhymed piece on diplomats and their lords. ### the diplomat the diplomat's a sorry, somber sort who murmurs, meek, before their looming lords and sings to them apologies for crimes unfurled in distant lands by foreign kings for whom
Envoys and Diplomats
Therefore, you will all be made into imperial diplomats.
Diplomatic Immunity
Round the corner from the train station, two blocks ahead, and here he is. Quiet and inconspicuous in zoris and the shorts-and-blue-Hawaiian look so common in his hometown, the scrawny lizard hustles from mass transit and onto the little avenue he's...
Transmission Lost - Dramatis Personae
After seventeen years on arbaros, miri's skill as a diplomat earned her the attention of empress solan iv, and she was summoned to lirna to serve as her advisor on diplomatic affairs.
Tangled Vines - Chapter 1
_dark fire_, slg-76, passed between the diplomatic ship and mûr zhæn. "see? we're so far out the military had to send a _scout ship_ to guide us!"
Shared Experience
'diplomatic relations' had been one of the classes that bader took pass/fail, and in the end the grade had been more an act of pity than anything else.
Tangled Vines - Chapter 4
This was not a quiet, discrete rendezvous between members of rival houses—a formal invitation bearing a diplomatic seal, openly delivered by an imperial courier, sent by an unpaired son of off-worlder diplomats to the unpaired lowly fourth daughter of a lower
Walls: Exodus 19 - The Snare
“so, would we be actual diplomats or…" i whispered. “no, you would actually be aides for one of our top diplomats," athena answered. “… when do we need to decide?" i wondered.
Burning Hearts, Chapter 1 -- A New City
They talked about the appearances of the diplomats on the way back to the hotel while surrounded by their bodyguards.
Tangled Vines - Prologue
Lady nemi-mer'ana, a high-level member of the mûr tua'ansa diplomatic circle, was to be the official government liaison assigned by order of her majesty, empress krel-mri'ana.
First Impressions
The translation matrix came out of early experiments in diplomatic relationships, before the production of a universal translator.