That gets her to raise a brow at him -- did he truly mean it? If so, it made him an odd Komarran indeed. "No more than any of this has." She will give him that much, at least. As for the state of things, well. "It is always a push and pull. When that changes we are truly in trouble. But now-- it seems to have settled into a stalemate where our worst enemy is Barrayar itself."