She could have fought him poniard vs sword. She could have called out both Hawklords. She could have picked him up out of his chair a la Porthos and slapped him around. In any case, from what little I know about courtly behavior, a knight has to organize his existence in such a way as to avoid getting in situations where he can be insulted by inferiors he can't chastise. Perhaps here T audibly speculated about hiring a Teckla to thrash the Hawklord, since a cardsharp cannot be a gentleman and she can't be expected to correct a commoner, but Paarfi wouldn't print such an insult to a member of his House (and note that later T kills her patrol partner over an insult to a Hawklord...) On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Dejin Shathe wrote: > > >From: "Jon Carey" <greyw01f at hotmail.com> > >To: dragaera at dragaera.info > >Subject: Re: while cursing amazon re the non-release of _TLoCB_ > >Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 03:46:33 +0000 > > > >I think I can help with this one. > > > >I think Tazendra's actions can be explained by a couple possible things: > >1) The opponents in question might have had didn't social rank or titles > >that might have caused Tazendra to give the Hawklord the honour of a duel, > >but not the Dragon. 2) It was more insulting to the Dragon to a) deny him a > >fight and b) do so on the grounds that 1 dragon wasn't enough for her to > >consider the effort. In this way she maintains a superiority without > >drawing sword, which we all know is better than doing so by drawing the > >sword (He's taken x number of colours without drawing sword, "Dragon") > > On top of all that, the Hawklord was cheating her at three copper mud. Such > an action could not go unpunished - and unfortunately for the Hawk, a Dzur > really only has the one method of slapping someone on the wrist... > > -Dejin- > > > > "It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no-one else will speak." > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > ninemsn Extra Storage is now available. Get five times more storage - 10MB > in your Hotmail account. Click here http://join.msn.com/ > >