 What is the Carstar thing?
Have you decided on this Carstar thing yet, Father?" "That," he said to Nestir, "my dear Father, is the cardinal point of the whole game, y'know." After all, it's not only a question of how we go, but also a question of leaving only after having done our duty. Anticipation can be a joy, y'know: almost equal to the very Reward. "This problem of Carstar interests me," the third mate said. "That," said Nestir, "is not at all like the Carstar case. "As I see it," Nestir said, "if the intent was the natural maternal instinct of the mother to release her child from its duty, then...." "But still ... it ...
 Someone was killed.
 Someone was killed.  A person attempted to avoid duty by hastening to the Reward.  There was questionable intent.  He had a very pretty wife.