"No doubt the report you provided to General Spitfire, and the copy the Guard provided to the Army, weighed in your favor as well. Of course, in the other direction, receiving copies of your recall to duty and promotion, not to mention assignment as attaché to Mister Cook, came as quite a surprise—as much to the both of you, I gather, as to the Guard's board members." Very much in evidence was the mischievous humor that inspired said diplomat to murmur very quietly, safely on the other side of the portal and out of Sunset's hearing, the half-affectionate, half-exasperated nickname "Trollestia". "I feel certain those orders must have been cut, and backdated, while the three of you were here in Equestria, whatever their actual wording."