[ She drinks her coffee while processing this, completely non-reactive as she automatically runs through an internal assessment. She has to remind herself again that this isn't her jurisdiction, he's not from her dimension, he's already been sentenced. Without that fallback of a Judge's prerogative, she's left intaking all this from a purely human one.
It's... unfamiliar, but not unwelcome. And for the first time the sort of person she is beneath all the necessity that overtakes her shows through: she looks hesitant, compassionate. She gets pieces of feelings with the flashes of events, intrinsic and inseparable in the human mind. Anderson is good at separating herself from others' thoughts, but that doesn't mean she's unaffected. It all comes through.
She sets her empty cup down. ]
You should've been medically discharged, anyway. Before that. You have to find a way to live the way you are, Vorkosigan.
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It's... unfamiliar, but not unwelcome. And for the first time the sort of person she is beneath all the necessity that overtakes her shows through: she looks hesitant, compassionate. She gets pieces of feelings with the flashes of events, intrinsic and inseparable in the human mind. Anderson is good at separating herself from others' thoughts, but that doesn't mean she's unaffected. It all comes through.
She sets her empty cup down. ]
You should've been medically discharged, anyway. Before that. You have to find a way to live the way you are, Vorkosigan.