"You can say that again. Anyway. I was... constrained, by factors outside my control, but at the first available opportunity I shot Galen and left Miles in possession of his own life again. Miles is the one who named me Mark, when I took him aside for a personal conversation after capturing him. He was very insistent on calling me his brother. It's the legal default on Beta Colony to consider clones siblings; Barrayar has no precedent, because as far as I know I'm the first clone of a Barrayaran. And Barrayaran Imperial Security is watching me because I am technically a threat to the Imperium on multiple levels. Miles actually had to save me from Barrayaran assassination teams shortly after I killed Galen, although I gather he's gone to the top and pled my case since, because I haven't had to dodge any more assassins."
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