standsentinel: (looking down)
Kaidan Alenko ([personal profile] standsentinel) wrote in [community profile] forbarrayar 2017-08-31 02:09 am (UTC)

Tag rises from the deeeeaaaaad! No hurt feelings if it's too old.

"Say maybe that it's a shame that Beta Colony doesn't have any collapsed wormholes in its backyard instead," Kaidan suggests a beguiling alternative.

Micah may be his only in-person example of Betans, but he's put together enough both from his filtered comm access and the particular shade of Cetagandan superiority in their encyclopedia entries that suggests a grudging appreciation of talent. Beta, he can reasonably conclude, would be a much safer place to be a biotic.

Setting down the datafeeds now that Micah's at least made an effort to subsist on food as well as raging intellectual curiosity, he wonders quietly that "If this doesn't work, think your people would accept a refugee claim?"

He's got a lot of things to want to get home for, and the more time he spends in the Betan's orbit, the more plausible the idea for a return seems... but plausible is not the same as probable. And the Major has always been fond of having another way out.

Post a comment in response:

This account has disabled anonymous posting.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting