Like a somnambulist the girl teeters when his hands leave her shoulders only to right herself slowly as if the pillar of her spine is a spring. Her anatomy evokes an impression of malleability, that like a manikin she can be manipulated at his discretion without a hint of resistance. Is his canine companion too not artfully passive in his arms?
She cocks her head as he makes a sweep of a room bereft of any character but theirs. "Going through a girl's things," Eli reprimands him softly — being a disciple of irony. Her belongings are of course scarce, and neither is she what she says she is. The ideal word escapes her.
He plys her locks with a towel. So intimately is his name tied to violence that at times his tenderness is remarkable even to Eli, and yet he is in his element, sure of hand and his eye focused. A kind of nurturing variation on his poise in battle.
Seemingly from nowhere, or perhaps from a discerning place after all, Eli turns her head and says, "You would make a great father." Whether she would pass for a model daughter Eli doesn't say. "It shows."
This is astoundingly long. Am I reasonable with your time?
Like a somnambulist the girl teeters when his hands leave her shoulders only to right herself slowly as if the pillar of her spine is a spring. Her anatomy evokes an impression of malleability, that like a manikin she can be manipulated at his discretion without a hint of resistance. Is his canine companion too not artfully passive in his arms?
She cocks her head as he makes a sweep of a room bereft of any character but theirs. "Going through a girl's things," Eli reprimands him softly — being a disciple of irony. Her belongings are of course scarce, and neither is she what she says she is. The ideal word escapes her.
He plys her locks with a towel. So intimately is his name tied to violence that at times his tenderness is remarkable even to Eli, and yet he is in his element, sure of hand and his eye focused. A kind of nurturing variation on his poise in battle.
Seemingly from nowhere, or perhaps from a discerning place after all, Eli turns her head and says, "You would make a great father." Whether she would pass for a model daughter Eli doesn't say. "It shows."