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Yay, I'm so glad you like it! :)

Yes, they have become Very Good Friends. (For Laurence's reactions, I was thinking again of the way he reacts to Tharkay, who I think becomes his closest friend in the books.)

I think that Laurence is a big believer in justice. Which is not the same thing as revenge! It's not that he wants the bad guy to be caught because he wants to hurt him. But he thinks that offenders should be brought to justice. (And of course he says he's doing what any honourable man would do, which...is clearly not the case except for Laurence's stringent definitions of honour. You've got to love him.)

Laurence is sufficiently familiar with Lord Vorkosigan's MO to have justifieable worries in this regard XD bwahaha! No, okay, that's great, but what I was /actually/ thinking is that it's well within Lord Auditor Vorkosigan's powers, even as Ninth Lord Auditor, to order that Galeni be let return home. He wouldn't, of course; for the stain on Galeni's honour to be removed, he needs to be cleared, and the real traitor found, and Miles knows that. But Vorlaurence doesn't know that he does, hence his concern. But honestly I love that, and now I'm picturing Miles, presumably at some earlier stage in his career, plotting a break-in to ImpSec HQ to rescue a POW Galeni, and maybe recruiting Vorlaurence along the way.

As to Vorlaurence's future career, I'm afraid my thought process at the time was more *stare blearily at screen* what would this character do. Okay now the other character. *squints determinedly at an adverb for five minutes*--it was not exactly full of detailed worldbuilding notes, is what I'm saying. (For one thing, pretty sure this doesn't begin to match up with the timeline suggested by the first one.) That being said, yes, I think Vorlaurence must be ImpMil, and I love the idea of Temeraire being a Cetagandan experiment that Vorlaurence accidentally ended up with...but what if instead of a dreadnought, the Cetagandans are trying to build an animal that can survive in space, and maybe carry a small crew with? I'm sure you can justify various dragonish traits as being useful in space somehow, plus biotech is very Cetagandan and I honestly just like the idea of Temeraire being a creature, still (and imagine the Barrayaran higherups trying to deal with a sentient dragon the size of a medium-small ship!)