He gives a merciful gesture of one hand and lets up a bit. "One can never see oneself," he says. "One relies on mirrors to do so - and the only mirrors that reflect a person are other people." He gives a little smile. "And when those mirrors are as enormous as the ones you find yourself reflected in, a hundred feet tall and a hundred feet wide, the grandest mirrors in Barrayaran history, you look at your image and you think: I am small. Look at how little of the frame I take up. But that's merely an illusion, dear Sonia. A trick of the eye."