[ It would be easy to retreat again in the face of all that love for Vorkosigans, Vorkosigans, Vorkosigans - Miles more than any other, and that does raise a spike of bitterness and envy...It would be easy to retreat when he's identified as a son of Aral and Cordelia. Because that idea is outright insane. Miles' brother - maybe. Possibly. But the son of those two? They contributed genetic material. Unwittingly. No. His mother is a uterine replicator. That's it. But...There's also that assertion that he's his own person. Not just the evil changling-child come to take the prince's rightful place, to poison the household. Not just a paler, worse imitation of Miles. His own person.
So he holds the connection open. Waveringly, but he holds it open.
You could have run away. You didn't ask them to die for you. You can't feel obligated just because someone does something you didn't ask for.
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So he holds the connection open. Waveringly, but he holds it open.
You could have run away. You didn't ask them to die for you. You can't feel obligated just because someone does something you didn't ask for.
And you weren't a prisoner. ]