It was not easy. Everything about the castle ​ — its multicolored relief sculptures of winged bulls, archers, and lions of glazed brickwork, its fluted stone columns and imposing statues, even its position atop huge platforms near the snowcapped Zagros Mountains and overlooking the pure waters of the river Choaspes — ​ was designed to remind each visitor of the immense power of the man whom she was going to see, the one who called himself “the great king. ” He was also her husband.
ესთერი ცდილობდა, სიმშვიდე შეენარჩუნებინა, როდესაც შუშანის სასახლის შიდა ეზოს უახლოვდებოდა.