What - your Earth doesn't even have corrective surgery yet? I knew you weren't civilized enough for gene-cleaning, but I thought you'd at least understand the proper application of a laser.
[ Hypocrisy, of course. No one in By's Barrayaran generation is gene-cleaned, and all of them were body-births, from the Emperor on down. They're as barbaric and as brutish in their practices as Old Earthers were before they even ventured into space. Hell, Byerly probably has more hidden mutations in his perverse Vorrutyer genome than Richie does. But a fellow wants to feel superior sometimes.
And speaking, also, of keen eyesight - He does want to get this question out before that door comes open, before whatever monster lurking inside bursts out. It's not like he needs to know this, because the little curly-haired boy isn't here with him. But he wants to decode that wistful glance that Richie has been turning on the child. ]
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[ Hypocrisy, of course. No one in By's Barrayaran generation is gene-cleaned, and all of them were body-births, from the Emperor on down. They're as barbaric and as brutish in their practices as Old Earthers were before they even ventured into space. Hell, Byerly probably has more hidden mutations in his perverse Vorrutyer genome than Richie does. But a fellow wants to feel superior sometimes.
And speaking, also, of keen eyesight - He does want to get this question out before that door comes open, before whatever monster lurking inside bursts out. It's not like he needs to know this, because the little curly-haired boy isn't here with him. But he wants to decode that wistful glance that Richie has been turning on the child. ]
I'm guessing that one doesn't survive?