[It's just so delicate, Gregor doesn't want Miles to trod over any piece of this building relationship with his usual flair for the dramatic.
He has to completely smother his own childhood traces of longing that he could actually be their son, instead of their half-adopted foundling groomed to the Imperium. Gregor has mostly gotten over that now, and in any case, he can't regret not being Miles's brother, which is a train of thought he does not dare to go down with guests in his head.
Why would he hate you? he asks prosaically instead. You're forgetting the reframing so soon, hm? You're my subject now. Barrayaran. You've committed no crimes that I know; he's nothing to hate you for.]
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He has to completely smother his own childhood traces of longing that he could actually be their son, instead of their half-adopted foundling groomed to the Imperium. Gregor has mostly gotten over that now, and in any case, he can't regret not being Miles's brother, which is a train of thought he does not dare to go down with guests in his head.
Why would he hate you? he asks prosaically instead. You're forgetting the reframing so soon, hm? You're my subject now. Barrayaran. You've committed no crimes that I know; he's nothing to hate you for.]