[The only one less conspicuous was Simon Illyan but then, he'd made of a career of invisibility where Aral had done anything but. He had slipped into camp life just as naturally, albeit with slightly more grumbling about the cold. Simon had been an agent for a long time, over a decade, and he'd had all the necessary survival training—plus additional, rendered by an older Piotr Vorkosigan himself—but he was certainly not born to it. And he had not been Chief so long that he found himself bored enough to be grateful of any field work to come his way.]
Tolerable, [He replies blandly. There was nothing to tell he was stifling a habitual my lord except the faintest twitch to his jaw. No one who knew "Aral" or Simon Illyan (a perfectly unremarkable prole name) would know that they were acquainted any more than casually. They were both having to walk a fine line between making their not inconsiderable skills useful, and not drawing undo attention that might cause them to have to explain themselves to likely dubious Piotr Vorkosigan.]
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Tolerable, [He replies blandly. There was nothing to tell he was stifling a habitual my lord except the faintest twitch to his jaw. No one who knew "Aral" or Simon Illyan (a perfectly unremarkable prole name) would know that they were acquainted any more than casually. They were both having to walk a fine line between making their not inconsiderable skills useful, and not drawing undo attention that might cause them to have to explain themselves to likely dubious Piotr Vorkosigan.]