In silence, all the people near the king's table could only stare at the strange scene between Ibven and Karim, which progressively became more and more serious and tense. Everyone was so surprised because in the city, speaking rudely to the king or to members of the royalty was taboo, there was no rule against it, yet no one was allowed to do so, and when someone dared to raise their voice to be rude to a member of the royalty, it was a great scandal among all the inhabitants of the city.
So to see how a concubine of the king, who was also a foreign slave, dared to insult the prince Karim, had aroused the attention and even indignation of all the people present. But all the guests remained silent, for although they wanted to intervene to put that daring slave in her place, they all knew
