Going to Weather

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.]