She breathed a sigh of relief at his creative solution and sampled her licorice tea. His method might not be conventional, but it was probably socially acceptable.  I bet Princess Celestia sees all kinds of different social customs—I wonder how she keeps track of them all? While the university had held a semi-formal dinner for the minotaurs, she hadn’t actually paid all that much attention to what they were doing with their hands. Now she wished she had.  