[ Miles can't see any of that. For the briefest moment, he's unsettled by the expression his longtime bodyguard wears. And it occurs to him that perhaps he doesn't know the other man as completely as he has always assumed ...
But he has no doubt that Bothari can do this. And better yet, he thinks he sees something more than mere assent in Bothari's expression. Good. He wants to make this easier on his armsman, dammit, not harder. ]
Of course. [ Overprotective, maybe, to give him the proper excuse to escape offworld... But even then, all he really needs to blame is Barrayar. And two parents who loved him enough to smuggle him out. ] I couldn't speak badly of Mother, anyway.
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But he has no doubt that Bothari can do this. And better yet, he thinks he sees something more than mere assent in Bothari's expression. Good. He wants to make this easier on his armsman, dammit, not harder. ]
Of course. [ Overprotective, maybe, to give him the proper excuse to escape offworld... But even then, all he really needs to blame is Barrayar. And two parents who loved him enough to smuggle him out. ] I couldn't speak badly of Mother, anyway.