> other Jhereg might. Although I wonder... in Phoenix, why don't the > Jhereg just take her out, rather than the big elaborate frame-up? I > suppose that a hitman code proscribing against killing women would make > it so that they don't go after her directly. I think the fact that she's > an Easterner as well as a Jhereg complicates things in terms of the > hitman code... Killing her would have made her a martyr for Kelly's cause. Alive and imprisoned, she's an object lesson for the masses not to fight the order of things. I doubt they avoided killing her out of concern of violating some sort of code.