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Have some more talking heads.
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Panel 1 [Adelaide breaks away from him, looking thoughtful, wringing her hands together]
ADELAIDE:
I’m not sure if, at the time, I wanted you to find it so soon. Or notice it later, once you were weeks from shore. Where I would simply be some imagined woman to hold onto at sea, a fantasy, and that’s all. Sometimes I wonder if that’s what I became to you anyway.
Panel 2 [Adelaide comes back up to Barzillai who is frowning]
ADELAIDE:
Do you know what else I’ve sewn into your clothes all the times they’ve come back to me, torn and battered?
Panel 3 [Shot over Barzillai’s shoulder as she reaches around to pluck at the collar of his lapel, again looking thoughtful.
ADELAIDE:
Little words of affection, little protections inside the sleeves, the hem, and the lining. Did you know that?
BARZILLAI:
I didn’t.
Panel 4 [Adelaide leans up to get closer to Barzillai’s height, nearly kissing him as she whispers to him. His head is bowed, looking sad.]
ADELAIDE:
I’ve been with you over those years, even if you didn’t know it. And now I’m here flesh and blood. Not an imagined woman at all.
Panel 5 [Barzillai kisses her forehead, still looking sad and distant as he does so.]
ADELAIDE:
I’m not sure if, at the time, I wanted you to find it so soon. Or notice it later, once you were weeks from shore. Where I would simply be some imagined woman to hold onto at sea, a fantasy, and that’s all. Sometimes I wonder if that’s what I became to you anyway.
Panel 2 [Adelaide comes back up to Barzillai who is frowning]
ADELAIDE:
Do you know what else I’ve sewn into your clothes all the times they’ve come back to me, torn and battered?
Panel 3 [Shot over Barzillai’s shoulder as she reaches around to pluck at the collar of his lapel, again looking thoughtful.
ADELAIDE:
Little words of affection, little protections inside the sleeves, the hem, and the lining. Did you know that?
BARZILLAI:
I didn’t.
Panel 4 [Adelaide leans up to get closer to Barzillai’s height, nearly kissing him as she whispers to him. His head is bowed, looking sad.]
ADELAIDE:
I’ve been with you over those years, even if you didn’t know it. And now I’m here flesh and blood. Not an imagined woman at all.
Panel 5 [Barzillai kisses her forehead, still looking sad and distant as he does so.]
This is such an interesting parallel to the woodwords in the ship! Both a kind of magic or haunting…
Definitely a sweeter one, in any case!