[ That's what he really wants to know. The outline of it - that's all the same. But the timing, the details ... he just isn't sure. He trudges along, thinking furiously to himself for a moment. ]

Most of it. His son does die around this time, and if Yuri were to die now, it really would be civil war. Barrayar wouldn't live through that.

[ All the more reason not to betray that secret ... ever, really. Bu especially not now. ]