"There is very little that anyone could say to clarify what happened next. Nothing that (in Mammachi's book) would separate Sex from Love. Or Needs from Feelings." (Roy 310). In the events that follow, Rahel and Estha make love after not having seen each other for 20 years. Clearly they have a very passionate relationship. I don't want to sound like I'm bashing these two kids who were victims of their own childhoods and grew up in a world where misdirection ran rampant, but I think they're a little too close. When all the memories and emotions of their tragic pasts, it becomes a little too much to handle, so I guess sex was the only way they could escape from that. I still think it's a little bit weird.