He wanted revenge. Not on me, specifically, but the whole aristocracy. The idea that you are who you are born to be, nothing less and nothing more. It's nearly impossible to rise above your station in Harmonia, and he'd been born into a low caste… that was why he joined up with those assassins, they're at least a meritocracy. But he'd already weaseled his way into another noble house by the time I met him, got himself adopted and declared the heir.
[ He was watching Byerly's reaction. They had their own caste system on Barrayar, he knew. ]
I don't think he appreciated the irony. This is one of the reasons he was a poor conversationalist. [ He waved his hand a little. ]
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He wanted revenge. Not on me, specifically, but the whole aristocracy. The idea that you are who you are born to be, nothing less and nothing more. It's nearly impossible to rise above your station in Harmonia, and he'd been born into a low caste…
that was why he joined up with those assassins, they're at least a meritocracy. But he'd already weaseled his way into another noble house by the time I met him, got himself adopted and declared the heir.
[ He was watching Byerly's reaction. They had their own caste system on Barrayar, he knew. ]
I don't think he appreciated the irony. This is one of the reasons he was a poor conversationalist. [ He waved his hand a little. ]