 What is Ahra referring to when she says "something has been taken?"
It has always been my desire to lighten the burden of life for those less fortunate...." "There are many towns along the Venusian frontiers where no entertainment of the— proper sort has been available. The extreme rarity of the animal...." It grates on a man's pride to have to sneak in and out of his own property through the sewage lock. The freaks and the green girl from Tethys who could roll herself like a hoop, and Zurt the muscle man from Jupiter, and all the other assorted geeks and kinkers and joeys that make up the usual corny carnie were doing nip-ups in the passageways and drooling over the thought of steer and toppings. Bes' li'l' guy inna worl'...."
 The cansin male.
 Gertrude's happiness.  Beamish's money.  The cansin male.  Jig and Shannon's safety.