Tharmia:
We have all heard him, your Majesty, except the deaf young man that went back to Barbul-el-Sharnak. We hear him now.
Queen: Yes! But nobody has seen him yet. My maidens have searched for him but they have not found him.
Tharmia:
Your Majesty, my husband heard him, and Ludibras, and while they live we know there is nothing to fear. If the King grew angry with them— because of any idle story that some jealous man might tell—some criminal wishing to postpone his punishment—if the King were to grow angry with them they would open their veins; they would never survive his anger. Then we should all of us say, "Perhaps it was Gog-Owza that Ichtharion or Ludibras heard."
Queen:
The King will never grow angry with Ichtharion or Ludibras.
Tharmia:
Your Majesty would not sleep if the King grew angry with them.
Queen: