King Raithen already sat astride on the back of the leith with Rhyphas and a few other saighs behind him. His wives Gossoni and Tazzen, together with his eighth, ninth and tenth wives, ran up to him. His three latest wives—Lakha, Saddath and Adrae—were a combination that he did not expect to get along well since they were in different social statuses.
Lakha was twenty-five, a farmer’s daughter, whom he married five years ago. She was a p*****t to a brothel’s owner because her father owed a lot to the latter and was scammed of his harvests by some cruel merchants and got beaten. She tried to kill herself rather than to serve different men in the brothel and that was when the King’s delegate found her almost hanging herself on a tree near the boundary between Sonnabeg and Kirion. He happen
