That's really your excuse? We can't take risks because we might screw it up?
[ By regards Miles with a lifted eyebrow. Now, he never got this whole story. Rumors of Vorkosigan getting sacked in disgrace had filtered down to him through some of his contacts - not, of course, through the inimitable Lady Alys, but through some of the others. Eyes ripped off had been the rumor. And then Illyan's illness, and then the sudden Auditorship, and the whole story had been lost. But this...This is a different Vorkosigan than the one who'd confronted him those months ago. ]
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[ By regards Miles with a lifted eyebrow. Now, he never got this whole story. Rumors of Vorkosigan getting sacked in disgrace had filtered down to him through some of his contacts - not, of course, through the inimitable Lady Alys, but through some of the others. Eyes ripped off had been the rumor. And then Illyan's illness, and then the sudden Auditorship, and the whole story had been lost. But this...This is a different Vorkosigan than the one who'd confronted him those months ago. ]
Why did Illyan fire you?