[ yes, snake, he does go on and on. you'll get used to it. you really don't have any choice. ]
On Barrayar, you mean? Mutant-paranoid Barrayar, where infanticide on babies with perceivable birth defects was still common practice not two generations ago? My own grandfather made a couple of attempts on my life in order to dispose of what he saw as a defective child, unsuitable to inherit the countship of my father's district. They're afraid of me like you'd be afraid of a disease, if they're afraid of me at all.
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On Barrayar, you mean? Mutant-paranoid Barrayar, where infanticide on babies with perceivable birth defects was still common practice not two generations ago? My own grandfather made a couple of attempts on my life in order to dispose of what he saw as a defective child, unsuitable to inherit the countship of my father's district. They're afraid of me like you'd be afraid of a disease, if they're afraid of me at all.
Most of them just underestimate me.