"And that'll get me a knife." She's still skeptical, but she has to admit there's something weird and funny about the whole idea. Lady Beth Greene, definitely not a farm girl from rural Georgia who never got a chance to finish high school. It'd fall apart in three seconds flat, as soon as they realized that she didn't know anything about their galaxy or any of their customs. But it's kind of entertaining to imagine--like something out of a play.

And there's a larger problem, anyway. "I've told other people about Earth, though. One of them." She nods vaguely toward the other Barrayarans, the real ones. "So it wouldn't work."