A Little Stagger Snippet

[robkelk]

While reading the story so far, this popped into my head. (I think it's because of Bob's posted snippet from "Rune Soldier Louie"...)

A tired sigh then escaped my host.  "I do apologise for that, Doug-san," she then said with a voice touched with a little weariness.  "I can sense you have your own sense of propriety towards dealing with those strongly touched by the Te'a . . . but despite my origins and my many gifts, I desire only to be a normal girl.  Fate, sadly, decreed otherwise."  She then smiled at me.  "So please, call me Hiromi.  And try not to use '-sama' with my name, good sir.  Or I will call you 'Sangoir-taisa' until you're sick to death of hearing it . . . AND arrange for proper navy side parties when you step on and off this ship or any of her sisterships while you're with us."

"You say that as if it's a bad thing," I replied. Then, after a pause but before she could answer, I smiled and continued, "Okay, it is a bad thing. But don't assume everybody hates ceremony, Hiromi-san."

Oh, yes... Timmies? Really? Poor girls...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012