When Miles finds out, he attempts to rescue his troops and his brother from the mess Mark has made, but is killed by a needle grenade.

After a while, Mark becomes frustrated by Barrayaran Imperial Security's lack of progress; he is convinced that Miles is still on Jackson's Whole and decides to search there himself.

Meanwhile, Miles has been secretly received and resuscitated by the Duronas, a research group cloned from a medical genius and employed by Jackson's Whole magnate Baron Fell.

His personality fragments into four sub-personalities: Gorge the glutton, Grunt the sex pervert, Howl the masochist, and Killer the assassin.

Mark sells Ryoval's security access codes to Baron Fell for a large sum of money and the Durona Group's freedom.