His reaction gets a giggle out of Sonia. He looks so scandalized.

"Well, of course. I was eleven years old, and I bored easily." She beams at him sunnily. "Sometimes it took more convincing. Some of them I think I scared away just by annoying them into submission. But some of them fell for some of the most ridiculous things -- daunting made-up rituals for sexual relations, ominous stories about what our armsmen did to past boyfriends, that she was secretly a psychotic, having inherited a Barrayaran disease of madness -- that was one of my favorites. It usually worked. Betans are so spooked by that sort of thing."