Petra was coming back to Brazil ( Read more... )

Ignoring Envy wasn't as hard as Peter had worried it might be: she certainly didn't seem to be making any attempts to insert herself into his life again, the way she had on Friday. And so his normal life continued. He'd spent the morning in extended talks with Petra and several Russian politicians, and then devoted some time to outlining the new ( Read more... )

It had been a rough but ultimately uplifting couple of months, as Peter's various armies and allies moved around the map, beating back Russian aggression and Indian strikes and no small amount of opportunists, trying to take a few square meters of land here and there in the confusion. Meanwhile, countries left and right were organising plebiscites ( Read more... )

Peter got the call about Bean at seven in the morning, right before his new Chief of Staff walked in with coffee in one hand and a datapad in the other. He had to pretend to be upset over the phone while Suzana looked increasingly anxious, and so when he put the phone down, he looked - and sounded - downright stricken ( Read more... )

To say that the day had not gone the way Peter would've liked it - even if he'd seen this one coming a century ago, albeit in a completely different, less ridiculous form - would be an understatement. He'd been prepared; even practically, with at least one aide who'd been shadowing much of the work Envy had been doing while she was here and who was ( Read more... )

It was funny. Peter had never thought of himself having a personal life worth mentioning, until it had started slipping right away from him. He couldn't say he was burying himself in his work, because he always did so regardless, but it was an all-devouring distraction; one that saw him running on adrenaline the moment he opened up his personal ( Read more... )

Peter had been putting this off ( Read more... )

It had been an exhausting and exhilarating few weeks since Peter made the Free People of Earth public. The most immediate troubles, of course, involved the territories he had eked out within the boundaries of other nations. Peru and Sudan had not declared war, but that was only because they had no one to declare war against: neither country ( Read more... )

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Re: Only one question remains ( Read more... )

Another day, another increasingly unhinged - if PR-savvy - Virlomi vid to deal with. Peter had spent most of the night on the phone with worried Russians who didn't want to show that they were worried (or that they respected the office of the Hegemony) but still wanted to work out if Peter had some kind of angle on Virlomi to make her stopAnd ( Read more... )