| 1 | * In the second book, Sten and troops are TrappedBehindEnemyLines and his Bhor friend Otho wants to mount a [[TheCavalry rescue mission]]. Cue a Bhor council to decide whether to go or not. This is old-style participatory democracy, and one elderly Bhor gets off-topic, rambling about his glory days. Finally, Otho interrupts -- interrupting is really bad manners, but his friends are ''dying'' -- by cutting off his beard (a sign this is SeriousBusiness) and kneeling to demand a decision ''now''. He's almost sure they'll vote against him, and then he'll be executed, but he had to do ''something''. And then the old guy he rudely interrupted ''cuts off his own beard'' and kneels beside Otho to support him. Dead silence. [[spoiler:They fly the rescue mission, of course.]] |
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