[ A small smile comes across his lips. He touches his forehead in a mocking salute. ]

As you traveled through time and space, madam, so too did I. Do keep this a secret - [ His eyes flick up mockingly to where he suspects the cell's surveillance equipment is concealed - ] But I am not from this Barrayar. I am from Barrayar, eighty years into the future. When Vorkosigan Vashnoi no longer glows at night, but is still a poisoned and uninhabitable place. [ His lips twist. ] When Barrayar is free of Cetagandan control, but at the cost of five million of her children. Many of them slaughtered during the Cetagandans' retributive retreat. I was a poor student of history - I tended to skip school, you see - but even I was taught very well just what cruelties they inflicted on this planet.