Kou'te-bpe's voice is wry, "Then I will have to hope that there is plenty of plunder. Without meat those three nights it is more likely that I will lose control. Fighting as a man will help as well."

With no other duties, that is what he does from when he wakes until when he sleeps. The foreigner rises as early as any in the palace and works with spear and shield or sword until the dinner hour. It helps.