Honour snapped to a hoof-over-heart salute, as did her Household analogs in their gilded armor. All she could see beside her was the solid slab of white-painted oak, divided by raised moldings into six rectangular panels. To her front, Honour saw the Royal Engineer drop his hands to his sides to bow, and three of the four guards along the back wall -- Glamerspear and the two Household Division sentries -- all gave a firm hoof-over-heart salute, while Ebonshield bowed her head completely to the floor. Honour suspected that this meeting had something to do with Ebonshield, and so far she was proving her right. Everypony knew, regardless of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell,' that batponies and the Princess of the Moon were linked, somehow.