"Your grandda doesn't want to meet Miles, but he wants to meet you," says Nika's mama.
"Does he know that it's not fair, you mean? I'm not sure," she says. "But sometimes people do want things that aren't fair, even though they aren't."
"Your grandda wishes he had a grandson who was healthy and could run around and play like you and Ivan and Gregor do without getting hurt," Cordelia explains. "He wishes that so much that he doesn't like Miles because Miles isn't the way he wants."
"You can do it better than Miles can. If Miles fell over as often as you do, all his bones would break and he'd spend most of his time in the hospital."
"He loves your Da very much, even though they're angry with each other about Grandda being unfair to Miles. And he's a hero. He did a lot of very important things when he was younger."
"When your Grandda was young, younger than I am now, Barrayar was invaded by Cetagandans and Grandda helped fight them off. That's when he became a General."
"I'm not sure. They weren't interested in explaining themselves at the time."
"He lives at Vorkosigan Surleau, which is a beautiful house on a lake, and it's three hours away by lightflyer."
There's an old man there, standing just inside the door. He smiles a little bit when he sees them.
"Hello, Piotr."
Piotr crouches down to get on Nika's level and asks, "Do you want a hug?"