"Really." The smile that crosses his face is not, for once, flirtatious or coy or ironic or theatrical, but rather genuinely surprised and charmed. How curious. The pursuit of art - at least art of that sort - is not a standard Vor-lady pursuit. Nor a standard prole-lady pursuit. Barrayar, especially Occupation-era Barrayar, never had time for aesthetics and appreciation. Less so for the recording of history - because as she said, the pictures are for remembrance, but at this time people are more in a desperate scramble to live, rather than thinking of what their descendants down the line will think of this time. Something that has left his generation rather the poorer with regards to their knowledge.

So, altogether without flattery, with genuine curiosity, he asks, "Would I be able to see them? I'd quite like to."