“Not everything rumored about Crown Prince Serg is true,” Miles cut hastily across this. “Though the true core is . . . bad enough. Mother knows. She was eyewitness to crazy things even I don’t know, about the Escobar invasion. But she’ll tell you. Ask her straight, she’ll tell you straight back.” “That seems to run in the family,” Gregor allowed. “Too.” “She’ll tell you how different you are from him—nothing wrong with your mother’s blood, that I ever heard—anyway, I probably carry almost as many of Mad Yuri’s genes as you do, through one line of descent or another.” Gregor actually grinned.
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