[ Gregor meets Aral's eyes without flinching, priorities mutually aligned.
Then he shifts his gaze back to Miles and says with a note of warning in his voice, ] I am disinclined to let this get any more convoluted. I don't want another repeat of this. My suggestion is to go as close to the truth as possible.
Lord Vorkosigan is your Lord Vorkosigan's father. You've been careful to leave your parents free of implication of wrong-doing. There should be no difficulty.
Does that suit?
[ Gregor speaks levelly, not impatiently, but Miles can likely feel the thrum of urgency in him to get a healer over here. He is not willing to put this off much longer, feeling his pain like that; already he is instinctively trying to rope some over to him, enough so Miles can breathe comfortably. He's started to get the trick of detaching himself from the pain, instead of thinking it's coming from his own flesh and bone. Surely he can handle a little bit of it... ]
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Then he shifts his gaze back to Miles and says with a note of warning in his voice, ] I am disinclined to let this get any more convoluted. I don't want another repeat of this. My suggestion is to go as close to the truth as possible.
Lord Vorkosigan is your Lord Vorkosigan's father. You've been careful to leave your parents free of implication of wrong-doing. There should be no difficulty.
Does that suit?
[ Gregor speaks levelly, not impatiently, but Miles can likely feel the thrum of urgency in him to get a healer over here. He is not willing to put this off much longer, feeling his pain like that; already he is instinctively trying to rope some over to him, enough so Miles can breathe comfortably. He's started to get the trick of detaching himself from the pain, instead of thinking it's coming from his own flesh and bone. Surely he can handle a little bit of it... ]