[Koudelka could go green with envy. If he were sober, he might go a bit stiff and defensive, but he is not sober. He is drunk, so he just looks glum.]

Oh. [A pause.] We don't...have anything like that, on Barrayar. Usually we don't retire at all until we have a decent pension waiting for us.

[Or if they're medically discharged. That had been Bothari's fate and would have been Kou's as well, if Vorkosigan hadn't swooped in to the rescue.]