"And everyone here fights with swords. I'm learning to." Not very quickly, not since the woman who'd showed her a little disappeared from camp, but she's doing it. "They've kept the Cetagandans back for a decade now. They're doing something right."

The walkers have only been around for two years or so, back home, and they've left the human population in the dust. Cetagandans aren't the same kind of mindless frenzy--they sound kind of terrifying in their precision, from what little Daryl's said--but even if they're winning this war, they haven't won. Barrayar has put up a fight.

And that gives Beth hope for them. If she doesn't fight for them, what's the point of being here? Especially now that she's definitely stuck here until she's dead--hopefully a long time from now. There's no point in living here and refusing to make an effort.