Noted. It's a familiar look one, oddly enough, and Zahal meets it as he does every time the look is turned on him by other people -- with a wide smile and a slight incline of his head. "Come sit here, and then tell me of it." It is, after all, in both of their best interests to make sure those among them are comfortable.

At least, he thinks with an internal shudder, they're not living in the mountains like the Barrayarans.