[That would certainly fetch some attention from the ears around the fire. Aral didn't react. Plainly, he couldn't react to that.
He answers, evenly, expression carefully neutral. The year is before the Regency, and in fact, it would take a historian to point to the significance of it. Mere months after the loss of the Betan fast cruiser near the planet to be named Sergyar. Where Aral Vorkosigan met Cordelia Naismith. To most Barrayaran's it was merely a tipping point of the war that overreached.
The date is far enough into the future that it does get a verbal exclamation from one of the men, a sentry who thought he was low enough not to be overheard.]
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He answers, evenly, expression carefully neutral. The year is before the Regency, and in fact, it would take a historian to point to the significance of it. Mere months after the loss of the Betan fast cruiser near the planet to be named Sergyar. Where Aral Vorkosigan met Cordelia Naismith. To most Barrayaran's it was merely a tipping point of the war that overreached.
The date is far enough into the future that it does get a verbal exclamation from one of the men, a sentry who thought he was low enough not to be overheard.]