[Maybe she should be telling her that she needs to be smarter about it, but more than that, she finds the fire in her eyes, in her words, to be a good thing. She knows what it's like to struggle against servitude.
She doesn't necessarily feel bad about having some hand in Lakshmi ending back in a cell, but she doesn't feel good about it, either. She's pretty sure the woman would have ended up here one way or another, and if she was the type in need of comfort for her choices she might argue that it could have been worse.]
You really think the Barrayar are better?
[It's curiosity, not judgement. She wants her to tell her why she thinks she right, why one side is better than the other because Natasha is perfectly fine with finding a way to play both to get what she wants.]
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[Maybe she should be telling her that she needs to be smarter about it, but more than that, she finds the fire in her eyes, in her words, to be a good thing. She knows what it's like to struggle against servitude.
She doesn't necessarily feel bad about having some hand in Lakshmi ending back in a cell, but she doesn't feel good about it, either. She's pretty sure the woman would have ended up here one way or another, and if she was the type in need of comfort for her choices she might argue that it could have been worse.]
You really think the Barrayar are better?
[It's curiosity, not judgement. She wants her to tell her why she thinks she right, why one side is better than the other because Natasha is perfectly fine with finding a way to play both to get what she wants.]