[ And they'll fight a decade more if we can't speed this up, thinks Miles wearily. He'll be forty by the end of the Occupation if it follows previous history. God, he probably won't even live to see his own time, all things considered ...

No point in thinking about that right now. If they were pulled here, then surely they can be put back. ]

Just so. The Cetagandans are quite dangerous in this context. [ A beat. ] Less so when you are a planet on equal footing with them, but ... this is not the case, I assure you. Barrayar is considered to be a remote backwater.

[ Even in his own time, much less now. ]