He longed for reconciliation with his estranged father, but painful memories made him feel unready to do so.

Now that we have done the impossible we can finish it, all that remain are rather easy and surmountable obstacles.

He had an expression on his face with which Ivan could identify, a sort of covert crogglement common to Barrayarans just back from their first visit to Beta Colony, as if he wasn't sure whether to fall to the ground and kiss the concrete or turn around and run back to the shuttle.

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