The Betan would be Micah, of course, the doctor they'd failed to rescue back in Vorkosigan Vashnoi. That loss still hurts, Wash and Miles had spent hours just wandering lost in the city, not to mention everything else that became of that clusterfuck of a mission when Wash had let his own frustration go out of hand. No surprise to hear that the doctor's been cooperating with the Cetagandans, at least that ensures their safety, for now. But this is something he's curious about, though, something he'd like to press.

"Yeah. Of course I do." People in a fairly perilous position counting on him, actually, and yet. He watches Kaidan carefully, out of the corner of his eye. "I'm just not sure that it'd be worth the Cetagandans having that kind of tech."