"So what is it?"
"I thought you could tell me? said Hushidh. "Has Luet said anything that would make you think she was separating from everybody except for you and your children?"
He shrugged. "Maybe she has and I didn't notice. I don't always notice."
The very fact that he said so made Hushidh doubt it. He did notice, and therefore he had noticed. He just didn't want to talk to Hushidh about it.
"Whatever it is," said Hushidh, "you and she don't agree about it."
Nafai glared at her. "If you aren't going to believe what I say, why do you bother to ask me?"
"I keep hoping that someday you'll decide that I'm worthy to be trusted with the inner secrets."
"My, but we're feeling out of sorts today, aren't we," said Nafai.
It was when he started acting like a little brother that Hushidh most hated him. "I must mention to Luet sometime that she made a serious mistake when she stopped those women from putting you to death when you violated the sanctity of the lake back in Basilica."
"I'm of the same opinion," said Nafai. "It would have spared me the agony of watching you suffer through the distress of being my sister-in-law."
"I would rather give birth every day, that's how bad it is," said Hushidh.
He grinned at her. "I'll look into it," he said. "I honestly don't know why Luet would be separating herself from everybody else, and I think it's dangerous, and so I'll look into it."
So he was going to take her seriously, even if he wasn't going to tell her what he already thought the problem was. Well, that was about as much as she could hope for.