"You're serious." That, or they have a plan more sophisticated than taking Sasha apart in the middle of the party. "Ashari. What in all the hells are you thinking? You know perfectly well what my background looks like. It does not include leadership training."

Unless the expectation Sasha would grow up to manage her father's household qualifies as training. Since she was on a straight-line path to get them all killed (as her mother explained in very small words, when Sasha was sixteen) that experience is hardly an advantage.