[ He spreads the fingers of his hand in a gesture of uncertainty. Vorkosigan gesture. Very Vorkosigan gesture. ]
Honestly? We don't know. I don't know if ImpSec knows, or if Illyan's just keeping it a secret from us. But there's been intel that someone made a clone as part of some plot against my-father-the-Count. [ Vorkosigan so often says that as a phrase, all in one rush, with just the faintest hint of drollness - like it's an inside joke, with no concern for who or who isn't on the inside of that joke. Part of his charisma, the clone had always noticed. He assumes you're one of his, and then you just fall into being his. Not like Galen with his revolutionaries - Galen kept control through hard dedication to a mutual ideal of a free Komarr. The Jacksonians kept loyalty through money, and lots of it. Vorkosigan gets loyalty by just demanding it, and for some reason people give it.
The clone prefers the Jacksonian model. ]
That might be you. It's starting to sound like that's you.
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Honestly? We don't know. I don't know if ImpSec knows, or if Illyan's just keeping it a secret from us. But there's been intel that someone made a clone as part of some plot against my-father-the-Count. [ Vorkosigan so often says that as a phrase, all in one rush, with just the faintest hint of drollness - like it's an inside joke, with no concern for who or who isn't on the inside of that joke. Part of his charisma, the clone had always noticed. He assumes you're one of his, and then you just fall into being his. Not like Galen with his revolutionaries - Galen kept control through hard dedication to a mutual ideal of a free Komarr. The Jacksonians kept loyalty through money, and lots of it. Vorkosigan gets loyalty by just demanding it, and for some reason people give it.
The clone prefers the Jacksonian model. ]
That might be you. It's starting to sound like that's you.