Sonia bites her lip. He sounds so sure. But technically -- if his wild tale is to be believed -- he's not even from this Barrayar. She still doesn't know how to feel about what he'd told her. It's...no more impossible than anything else the outsiders have brought with them.

"I don't have any resources," Sonia says, not wanting to admit to lack of courage or determination. She wants to leave, badly -- she hasn't seen her mother or brother in ten years. "I...don't think I could, anyway."