| This chapter leaves me pondering (forgive my ramblings) Ariashal's feelings for the King. In him she has found someone that seems to value her - for he if he only wanted sex he would not care, perhaps, for her needs or for her pleasure. She enjoys the physical intimacy and she trusts him. Adzuphel says that the King does not love her, is incapable of loving her. She doesn't react to that. But then he comes to her and asks if he is forgiven. Whether she is dependent on him (for companionship, physical intimacy etc) or loves him at this point is not entirely clear. If she loves him, what about him makes her love him? Trust, respect, care - I guess it is more than she got from the other men who had been in her life, inlcuding her own family. |
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