"Let us both dance for you, so that you may judge between us" .....
However, he vetoed this neat arrangement.
"The girl has been wounded. And she's still not strong enough for much exertion."
Rayma brooded on this fact, and the more she thought about it, the less she liked it.
"Did you capture her on that foray?" she asked presently.
"She was part of my booty," he said, a lingering tenderness in his voice.
Again Rayma was silent.
Very quickly she put two and two together.
The Sultan had not been near the harem since his return from that quest for vengeance. And this new slave had been captured during that foray.