He finds himself watching her, utterly charmed by all those little gestures. God, he really shouldn't be getting attached here. Soon enough this fight will be over, and she'll return to her newly freed home...

And if he's not careful, he'll give himself away. Goodness. Focus, Miles. "It is a long and sordid story," he says. "But - to put it simply, I am the clone of a Barrayaran Vor lord. Escaped from my captors, then raised on Beta Colony. But I know a significant amount about my progenitor's homeworld." Sorry, Mark. He's stealing your backstory here.