“Then do so,” Liriili said. They could only hear her voice. The uiixaar did not switch on visuals at her end. She sounded grouchy and sleepy. “You speak Niriian, do you not, Thariinye?”
“You wish me to do it, then, ma’am? You don’t -wish, for instance, to send for Melireenya or vifeShaanye-feriiii Neeva?”
Liriili’s voice took on a softer lilt as she woke up enough to realize to whom she -was speaking. “I have every confidence in you, dear boy. If Aari’s impression that there is urgent information contained in the piiyi is confirmed by your translation, please alert me at once. If it is indeed as important as Aari says-though you know his experiences have made him somewhat … unstable, shall we say, mst between us? -then of course you should send the messenger girl after another expert. But I would prefer not intrude upon the retreat the Ancestors have declared vital to the recovery of our spacefarers unless I feel it is absolutely necessary.”
“Yes, ma’am.”