"No," she says, before she can stop herself, and then, to clarify, "Not right before."

But God, she can't imagine anything worse than explaining it. Even if Byerly's somehow restraining himself from making whatever nasty comments are probably bouncing around inside his skull, she doesn't want to talk about it.

"I don't know if you have the same kinds of animals here." And she knows better than to think she could track down a rabbit and kill it with a knife. There's a reason Daryl used a crossbow for just about everything. "I can find Earth rabbit tracks. Not Barrayar ones."

This, she realizes belatedly, is asking for a lecture on her inability to grill Miles Illyan for every possible detail about Barrayar, but it's better than saying well, once Daryl ate a snake, that might be better than horse.