No. [He takes a lingering drink of coffee, a bit closer to ravenous than he was with the porridge, before continuing.] It wouldn't really be appropriate. Unless we celebrated Emperor Dorca uniting all the warring counts, but that didn't happen in a day. Our holidays are less...commemorative. More something that can keep being celebrated even when regimes change.

["Anything done twice on Barrayar is a tradition," Simon says.]