His longer-than-expected absence restarts her abandonment fears. Made all the worse by her newly raised--and risked--hopes of having someone who's truly loyal. So beautiful that when he returns, she can't directly express affection and release--so she pets the mule instead. That mule is great stand-in for Fentry's mule-like reliability. He's stubbornly caring. He intuits part of her refusal to marry him is her fear of being abandoned again--so he asks her again. Noble needs, put so subtly.
How she reaches out to stitch together his tatters, after she's shared her own through-all-the-tatters dream of a Home. Her hand lingering on his shoulder. She knows he's thinking of wanting to marry her, and of her rejection of him. So he turns his back to cope with the hurt of loyalty offered, tenderness returned, but marriage denied. Her pausing look to see if he'll still follow their path. Her lonely, worried waiting, fearing he'll now leave her, too. Stoic eloquence.
His longer-than-expected absence restarts her abandonment fears. Made all the worse by her newly raised--and risked--hopes of having someone who's truly loyal. So beautiful that when he returns, she can't directly express affection and release--so she pets the mule instead. That mule is great stand-in for Fentry's mule-like reliability. He's stubbornly caring. He intuits part of her refusal to marry him is her fear of being abandoned again--so he asks her again. Noble needs, put so subtly.
roscoefoofoo 1 year ago
How she reaches out to stitch together his tatters, after she's shared her own through-all-the-tatters dream of a Home. Her hand lingering on his shoulder. She knows he's thinking of wanting to marry her, and of her rejection of him. So he turns his back to cope with the hurt of loyalty offered, tenderness returned, but marriage denied. Her pausing look to see if he'll still follow their path. Her lonely, worried waiting, fearing he'll now leave her, too. Stoic eloquence.
roscoefoofoo 1 year ago