Table Etiquette for Diplomatic Personnel, in Seventeen Scenes
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"Did you know,” the Ijt Ambassador said, as she sipped gently at her soup with her long, blue, curling tongue, “that your predecessor, in an act of yofishi —” the translator choked on the word, but Station Commander Ennie Niagara knew that it meant self-destructive behavior that nevertheless brings great satisfaction —“served the Ponkian delegation something called ghost peppers?”
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