vorrutyer: (satisfied (but smug))
Byerly Vorrutyer ([personal profile] vorrutyer) wrote in [community profile] forbarrayar 2017-05-21 02:58 am (UTC)

Oh, more. Always more.

[ By shakes his head. He can't help but smile at Nash's laughter, though. It takes a special sort of person - the sort of person who's near and dear to his heart - to chuckle over being called a liar. ]

The images we project are boiled down and simplified, you see, for public consumption. We represent the simplest elements of ourself - our toughness and aggression, say, or our simplicity and sweetness, in order to convince people that this is what we are. An aggressive soldier. An open-hearted man who wants nothing more than to help strangers. [ A little gesture to Nash. ] But there's always a hundred other faces behind the public face. Even for the dullest, least interesting person in the whole of the Nexus.

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