"I don't know how they were funded," Linya points out.

"Komarran expatriates who got their money out early," mutters Galeni.

"...A large but probably not princely sum by the standards of Jackson's Whole, I'd imagine?"

Galeni nods.

"I will still want to sit down and have a long, long conversation in which you produce more trivia about our history than you had time to give them before you started Macbeth," Linya tells Miles, "but I will for the time being go on referring to my husband in the second person."