Honour looked disinterestedly down at the specialist from her perch at the card-table. "You have to be able to improvise these sorts of things as a leader, you know." With a brief hint of a smirk, she got back to her book. "Anyways, when you've been around VIPs for as long as I have, you start to know how they tick. They love common-born military heroes who enforce the social order."