In which everyone has some catching up to do.
Things are heating up. The cops are hot on Val Con’s trail, and Miri’s soon to be in a similar situation with the Juntavas. (In retrospect, it seems like it might have been a strategic error not to have wondered more about who Murph’s lady friend was, although I suppose there wasn’t really any way for Miri to have found out even if she had wondered.)
It’s interesting, after Val Con took the time to explain to Miri what would happen to anyone who attacked him while Edger and his brothers were around, that when he is attacked he tries to find his own way out of it instead of calling on them for help. I suppose his instinct is still to avoid involving Edger in the shadowy side of his life any more than absolutely necessary. Also, if Val Con started a fight between Turtles and armed cops there would almost certainly be casualties on one side or both, which he would then have on his conscience along with everything it’s already loaded down with.
Any guesses?
Murph’s valuable ring is said to be set with “ponget and sapphire,” where I think we can assume that “sapphire” refers to the same blue (most commonly) gem as it does here on our Earth. But whereas in the “Trade” books the description of firegems definitely evokes what is called, in general, “mystic topaz,” here the reference to “ponget” does not suggest to me any known gemstone. Not that it must, of course, but so often the authors do try to allude to some known word(s).
So . . . anyone else have any guesses as to whether this name is the authors’ inventiveness OR is intended to evoke some Earth word I’m not familiar with?