"You have another five liters of it, from what I have given to understand," Ratchet says, then bites the inside of his cheek--he's trying to help, dammit, and Byerly seems stressed enough without Ratchet going out of his way to be a pain. He shakes his head a little.

"Washington, Daryl, and Lakshmi. Lakshmi was with the Barrayarrans at the beginning and was kidnapped--we were trying to break her out. We three-fifths succeeded, which I'll take, I guess."