[ Nope, he's still an idiot. She's going to shout it at everyone she meets from here on out. Barrayaran men were thick as two short planks, an entire city full of Galahad's stubbornly refusing to listen. They're going to frustrate her into her grave.

Even his question makes her eyes roll. Really, Byerly? All this and using the word idealist as nothing less than an insult, and he comes to this. ]

Because I have stood on these battlefields long before you were ever born, and I have fought them my whole life, and I have lost. I would rather die than to see that to happen to anyone else again.