Mark draws back from that offer, less horrified or repulsed by the offer than simply confused. "I'm - " Welcome to stay at the Vorkosigan House?
"Count Vorkosigan - " The title is a little strange in his mouth. He's always just been the Butcher to Galen. But: so be it. If he's leaving Galen behind, he's abandoning those slurs, too, right? (And he pushes down the little swell of nausea at leaving Galen behind. Didn't Galen abandon the clones to their fates? Didn't he send in Mark, too, half-informed, mostly ignorant, to very likely die? It's not disloyalty if it's to a traitor. Right?)
"You do know that I was supposed to kill you, don't you?" Why are you telling him this... "You...want me under your roof? Where you sleep? And your...son, as well?" Your elder son. Because if that's how you think of me, then Vorkosigan House would be my family home... Ridiculous. Absurd.
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"Count Vorkosigan - " The title is a little strange in his mouth. He's always just been the Butcher to Galen. But: so be it. If he's leaving Galen behind, he's abandoning those slurs, too, right? (And he pushes down the little swell of nausea at leaving Galen behind. Didn't Galen abandon the clones to their fates? Didn't he send in Mark, too, half-informed, mostly ignorant, to very likely die? It's not disloyalty if it's to a traitor. Right?)
"You do know that I was supposed to kill you, don't you?" Why are you telling him this... "You...want me under your roof? Where you sleep? And your...son, as well?" Your elder son. Because if that's how you think of me, then Vorkosigan House would be my family home... Ridiculous. Absurd.