[ When Bel puts it like that ... Miles feels as though he ought to protest for some reason. He was definitely desperate at the time, fresh off of some horrid failure. (The test where he'd shattered his legs, right? But why would he have been on Barrayar?) ]

... I admit I'd probably have been head over heels. Yes. Or determined to go and find them after.

But I was - I am quite deformed.