Quote: Valles wrote:Yeah.
Check back in a century and see if you can still say that. Probably Manticore as a whole won't make too much trouble, but as I understand it,
Miles ended up betraying his armsman's oath in the process of his little razziah, which, um, is likely actionable under Grayson law?
And that's leaving entirely aside the fact that Honor will, barring an inconvenient laser head or the like, still be alive and in her prime.
Miles borrowed a lot of trouble at fifty percent annual compound interest and hasn't caught on to the fact that Prolong'll keep him around to see the
bill come due.
Depends on the exact wording of the reservations they placed on the oath, but at first glance it's High Treason, punishable by - in Ivan's terms -
"dieting for the Emperor".
And, well, with some Steadholders, he might be able to lawyer out from under it - he's DAMN good at that. With Honor? Even if she's inclined to let him
get away with it, Grayson won't.
And that's all assuming that she doesn't find a way to go after him before the century moratorium is up.
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