Temple 39

Chapter 39
We return to Clarissa, who is trying on dresses for Nathan's approval. We soon learn that Nathan is posing as . . . someone . . . and Clarissa as Jagang's concubine, and Nathan insisted that Clarissa get some fancy clothes. There's a couple of pages of chatter between them, with Clarissa seeking reassurance and Nathan informing her that she's quite pretty, and it's actually not too bad.
Clarissa's new dress apparently pushes her breasts up and half-exposes them, because this is a book about IMPORTANT HUMAN THEMES! She takes a moment to slam the younger women of Renwold - who, I remind you, are currently sex slaves - by implying that their shapeliness was due largely to their fancy dresses. Because after all, women can never be in good shape or have natural curves. It has to be due to bras and corsets and suchlike. \~/
Oh, and Nathan has magicked the silver ring in her lip into a gold one, which is important and meaningful and stuff.
Clarissa comes to the realization that, while Nathan claims to be "Emperor Jagang's plenipotentiary," she herself is disguised as a sex slave. Why Nathan doesn't just remove the ring and let her be a free woman, I don't - oh right, because the Imperial Order is eeeevil, and eeeevil people are all, universally, misogynists. \~/
Nathan and Clarissa have a fancy dinner at a fancy inn, and then head up to their, enormous, palatial room. In a rather well-written bit, Clarissa angsts about her situation and how unfamiliar she is with it, and Nathan does his best to comfort her. I rather like Nathan; he's by far the most compassionate of Goodkind's characters.
So Nathan gives Clarissa the bed, but she invites him to share it with her, in a scene that actually manages to be effective, and the chapter ends.
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