"Duv and you could say I'm a long way from home," he answers as he accepts the other man's hand for a firm shake. Far from home in both time and place. A particular displacement he never thought he'd experience.

"They're an interplanetary Empire. I imagine they're trying to make Barrayar their next conquest." This particular piece of information is hardly a secret at least for him and would draw no suspicion from their Cetaganda captors. Cetaganda's exploits are well-known.