Sonia brightens a little at that, despite all its uncomfortable implications. That Beth has nothing to go back home to, not really; that somehow, a war-torn world they're all just barely surviving on is the place she wants to be.

"Apparently the Cetagandans are working on it," she says thoughtfully, in all fairness. "At least, that's what Count Vorkosigan said. But even if they did..." She tilts her head, drawing away from assumption. "Would you go back?"