>Just to follow up:
>
>the image I had was Ash's name coming up in a Triskelion meeting for
>honors, which of course at that level has Her Majesty present, and a
>couple of the old-boy-network types looking discomfited, and one of
>them getting up to say, "Your Majesty, the Williams clan is not going
>to get recognition in any military I am part of!"

"Hmm. Well, General, since your long and - if I may say so - radiantly undistinguished career has just come to an end, that shouldn't be a problem. You may now go fuck your skull and get started on your memoirs." (sunny smile) "The Crown thanks you for your service."

(All of
>this is in Salusian, and I presume that directive even more offensive
>in that language, in the same way that Russians can drop the most
>astonishingly profane statements either in deeply heated anger or a
>cheerful aside.)

Being a member of the imperial family, Asrial would be particularly good at this, able to utter outright obscenities in such a way that many of the people within earshot are able to convince themselves that they most not have heard her right. Although her bodyguard's occasional explosive giggling does rather give the game away sometimes. It's so hard to get good ninja help these days. :)

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