Agreement and a genuine question? Miles might very well faint. He does pause a moment just to reel a bit. Fortunately, he looks rather thoughtful as a result, though it takes him a moment to put actual words to his lips.
"Yes, sir. When I was seventeen," he says, not untruthfully. Though surely not quite in the same sense that Piotr means the question. "I admit I would not have chosen to come back in these troubled times, given the option." In more than one sense of the word. "But I had always planned to come back one day, and serve my planet as best she would permit me."
He lapses into quiet longing in that last sentence, a hint of wistfulness. When did he decide he was Vorkosigan and not Naismith after all? When did he get so damn homesick for his own time? He's planning to stay, isn't he? Then why does every part of him ache to go back and serve his own time?
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"Yes, sir. When I was seventeen," he says, not untruthfully. Though surely not quite in the same sense that Piotr means the question. "I admit I would not have chosen to come back in these troubled times, given the option." In more than one sense of the word. "But I had always planned to come back one day, and serve my planet as best she would permit me."
He lapses into quiet longing in that last sentence, a hint of wistfulness. When did he decide he was Vorkosigan and not Naismith after all? When did he get so damn homesick for his own time? He's planning to stay, isn't he? Then why does every part of him ache to go back and serve his own time?