[ Is that true? Miles wouldn't have helped? He opens his mouth to protest - then snaps it shut again, thinking instead. It would be high risk with little payout, other than the lives of those children. Important, very much so, but no long term solution. And doing all that on Jackson's Whole ... Any one of them would be fodder. A bidding war of the bloodiest order.
(He still has trouble believing Mark would just disappear. But then again Mark is reluctant enough to accept Miles' help here. Clearly things didn't go any better back home.)
It doesn't help the barbed spike of betrayal that goes through him. He has to swallow, thickly, and marshal his thoughts. ]
No. It hasn't even happened yet. And - I was planning on retiring.
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(He still has trouble believing Mark would just disappear. But then again Mark is reluctant enough to accept Miles' help here. Clearly things didn't go any better back home.)
It doesn't help the barbed spike of betrayal that goes through him. He has to swallow, thickly, and marshal his thoughts. ]
No. It hasn't even happened yet. And - I was planning on retiring.