Good God, is this really what he looks like when he's like this? He had no idea he looks just as insane as he feels sometimes. He draws back another half-step, looking at his older self in disbelief.

"What?" He shakes his head. "Drag Mark to Barrayar? That was never in the plan! What happened to just -- letting him live his life, be whoever or whatever he wants to be?" Oh, right. That apparently resulted in his own death. Dammit. Miles shakes his head vigorously, which only makes him dizzy.

"Look -- no. I'd talk to Bel and make sure that whole debacle never even happens. And Mark -- he was on the Moira too, for a while. He...saw what happened to me." When his identity utterly collapsed. That hadn't been fun. "Maybe it'll be different for me."