"What? God -- no, that wasn't what I meant. I wouldn't -- "
Sonia balks visibly, a look of alarm on her face. She wouldn't ask Byerly to do something like that, no -- and for once, not out of any family loyalty. Yuri makes her uneasy enough as it is, he's already...difficult, and while she knows perfectly well that Byerly can hold his own in a social arena, subjecting anyone to her uncle seems...unfair. And he's right, anyway; there's nothing Byerly could do, except piss Yuri off. Sonia rubs her face with both hands, her cheeks feeling oddly numb. In the absence of better judgment, she reaches to take the bottle back, shaking her head.
"That wasn't what I meant. I'm not asking you to be a fixer, Byerly. What I meant was -- there's all this tension, and people are whispering, and there's all this...this business going on..." She fumbles for words, shakes her head again. "What you did for ImpSec -- you just put yourself in a position to listen to things, didn't you? Wasn't that basically it?"
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Sonia balks visibly, a look of alarm on her face. She wouldn't ask Byerly to do something like that, no -- and for once, not out of any family loyalty. Yuri makes her uneasy enough as it is, he's already...difficult, and while she knows perfectly well that Byerly can hold his own in a social arena, subjecting anyone to her uncle seems...unfair. And he's right, anyway; there's nothing Byerly could do, except piss Yuri off. Sonia rubs her face with both hands, her cheeks feeling oddly numb. In the absence of better judgment, she reaches to take the bottle back, shaking her head.
"That wasn't what I meant. I'm not asking you to be a fixer, Byerly. What I meant was -- there's all this tension, and people are whispering, and there's all this...this business going on..." She fumbles for words, shakes her head again. "What you did for ImpSec -- you just put yourself in a position to listen to things, didn't you? Wasn't that basically it?"