Her face falls at his first suggestion, and further still at his second. She's already decided what side she's throwing in with in this war--permanently--and there's no way she's going to head over to the Cetagandans. Not for help, not to give somebody the opportunity to start another turn here on Barrayar.

"They can't know." But they might. She'd told Rani about the walkers, and who knows what they're doing to her in their compound. Her stomach feels like it's turning over. "Nobody has to know that it spreads, right? Or that it could."