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for successful revival is excellent, though not guaranteed. Major trauma, such as damage suffered in combat and poor or hasty preparation of the body, can let ice crystals form in the tissues during the freezing process, causing varying levels of damage. Excess tissue damage may prevent revival or cause permanent impairment. Tissue damage in the brain can be replaced by cloned neural tissues, but memories, skills, and personality are lost. This may give the resurrected person a range of damage from severe mental disability through loss of personality or skills to varying minor degrees of memory loss. Many cryo patients suffer temporary memory loss due to the procedure. The memory may return slowly or there can be a memory cascade as the associative linkages are recovered.

Cryo-freezing is a last-resort procedure. If the patient can be maintained adequately while replacement organs or tissues are grown, then cryofreezing is avoided. Miles undergoes cryo- stasis after being killed by a needler grenade, and has his heart, lungs, and stomach replaced in the Durona Clinic on Jackson's Whole. (BA, MD)

Crystal Springs:

An area on Athos where Brother Haas lives in a farmer's commune. (EA)

Csurik, Bella:

One of Lem's sisters, she is about to get married. Lem had promised to haul wood for her new cabin on the day Raina was killed. (MM)

Csurik, Dono:

One of Lem's younger brothers, he tried to set Miles's tent on fire after the village celebration, thinking he was in it. After Miles elicits his confession, he leaves the boy's punishment up to the family, even though the attack could have been construed as an assault on the count himself, and therefore treasonous. (MM)

Csurik, Harra:

A tall, lean, blond hill girl with gray eyes, not unattractive, but also not a beauty. She gave birth to a daughter, Raina, with a harelip, who was killed four days later. She accuses her husband of killing the child and walks for four days to Vorkosigan Surleau to seek justice. Her father died in the service as District Militia during the Vordarian Pretendership, and her mother is her only living relative. Once Miles establishes that Harra's mother, Mara Mattulich, killed Raina, he assigns all of her legal rights to Harra, then sends her off to the Hassadar Teacher's College, ensuring a better future for the children of Silvy Vale.

When he visits the village ten years later, she is a teacher at the Silvy Vale school, which is named for her daughter. She moved Raina's grave when the valley the town was located in was going to be flooded for the hydroelectric dam, but left her mother's grave where it was. Her husband Lem and she have a four-year-old boy and a one-year-old girl. During his visit, she advises Miles on how to continue living after enduring what others might think is unendurable shame. (M, MM)

Csurik, Lem:

Harra Csurik's husband, whom she accuses of infanticide. When Miles first meets him, he is twenty years old, a carpenter, and has four brothers and three sisters. He is almost certain it was Mara Mattulich who killed Raina, but does not want to accuse her. Miles interrogates him under fast-penta and confirms his innocence. Afterward, he suggests that Lem go with Harra to Hassadar to gain more experience in carpentry. When Miles visits the village ten years later, he has become Speaker of the Vale. (M, MM)

Csurik, Ma:

No first name given. Lem's mother, she is about fifty years old, little, lean, and work-worn. She has five sons and three daughters. She protests Lem's innocence when she meets Miles at the village celebration. (MM)

Csurik, Raina:

Harra and Lem Csurik's newborn daughter, she was killed by her grandmother, Mara Mattulich, when she was four days old. Her grave was moved, along with the rest of Silvy Vale, before the valley was dammed to create hydroelectric power. The village's two-room school is named after her. (M, MM)

Cultured Furs:

A division of GalacTech Bioengineering, a store where Miles purchased a live fur blanket for Elli. (BA)

Curry:

No first name given. A doctor who works under Doctor Minchenko at