I'm a complete idiot. Sorry. Sorry about my earlier incompetence on posting. What I meant to say was that you comment about Lewis's creation of Aravis Tarkheena. And I love Aravis, and I wanted to be her at the relevant time but has it ever occurred to you that she has the stripes laid on her back for thoughtlessness and selfishness in the case of the slave she uses to make her escape, but why doesn't anyone say what happened to the old fisherman at the hands of the brutal Tarkaan when he finds his valuable charger and the slave he has just bought missing in the morning? Certainly in Calormen as presented we're talking horrible death on stake in the sun stuff for Shasta's adoptive father, and that it never occurs either to him to consider the risk or to Aslan to rebuke him in the smallest way for not having thought about it struck me as interesting at the time. Why punish Aravis for her selfishness but not Shasta?