[ Byerly purses his lips. Vorkosigan is...irritatingly Vorish, in By's experience - one of those tiresome bores who acts like their names mean anything aside from inbreeding and nastiness and unearned superiority. The outcome, surely, of being of a largely-dead clan. He doesn't realize quite how vile their class truly is. This, of course, has the advantage of potentially making him easy to manipulate. And so he goes right for the heart: ]

I'll admit, I'm surprised. And here you have the possibility of saving the whole population of Vorkosigan Vashnoi. You're really not interested in that?