Look. They wouldn't cut up people to eat. Kill half-Barrayaran babies and hurl them at Cetagandans? Absolutely. Eat people? No. Probably not.

"Better than starving," Miles agrees empathetically. And that's the end of that topic for now. Not what he'd come to see Daryl about, anyway. He looks up at the taller man, rubbing idly at the forming crick his neck. "But no. As fascinating as this topic is, it's not what I came to talk to you about." A pause. "Well. The last time we met, I think you were trying to punch me in the face."