chapter 12 woman 's reason there was one of the tribe of tarzyn who questioned her authority , and that was terkou , the daughter of tublati , but she so feared the keen knife and the deadly arrows of her new lord that she confined the manifestation of her objections to petty disobediences and irritating mannerisms ; tarzyn knew , however , that she but waited her opportunity to wrest the kingship from her by some sudden stroke of treachery , and so she was ever on her guard against surprise .