His hand is deflected, but Miles still leans in close. There's more fire in his eyes than there was a moment ago, at least. (He will pull out of that slump one way or another, and not just by forcing his alternate self to fix things.) "Why the hell not?" he says fervently. "Just catch up to Mark a few days earlier. Help him with the damned strike team, and then drag him back to Barrayar to be part of the family. That's all you need to do." And Mark can escape torture too, and Miles won't die, and - it's the best solution, isn't it? Completely undo the need to wreck himself in the first place.