Face of God, but marrying Njrea had been a mistake.

"Trals!"

Trals hadn't married Turtle. He had just marched in and used her. Simple.

"Trals Scarback!"

But nothing about Njrea was simple. No plan escaped from her unchanged.

"Trals Scarback! I have a problem to lay at your feet."

"Yes, Pmhamun?" Trals turned. If another Eethlek began a harangue with the words 'your wife...'

"Your wife," said Pmhamun, "let herself be seen by me in her ...