Ah, shit. The story is thankfully not so depressing as that, though the truth is perhaps a bit too harsh anyway. He decides to skip over the details. No way to explain Mark, after all. Or how Bel would have gotten Miles' sponsorship for those ImpSec missions.

"Oh, no. Fine and healthy, working elsewhere now." He sighs a bit. "They ... struck out on a mission without my permission. Did their best with a bad situation. But insubordination is still insubordination. I was forced to ask for their resignation."