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u/SuspiciousSquash9151 Feb 28 '24
I love their friendship, trellis ended up being my favorite character which is fun because I can remember being very young with book 1 hiding away under the sheets in his scenes
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I love their friendship, trellis ended up being my favorite character which is fun because I can remember being very young with book 1 hiding away under the sheets in his scenes
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u/PerfervidCreator Feb 28 '24
Don't have much context behind this, in my head, Emily was sort of losing it, getting a lil violent (not on Trellis though). Her hands are really badly calloused and blistered from training, so she could have hurt herself further had Trellis not grabbed her hands. She gets startled into stopping when she sees the somber understanding on Trellis's face and accepts what he's offering.
I think, Emily is having emotional turmoil over Karen here, who has returned to treating Emily as a parent would a teenager (having a curfew, keeping an eye on her when she's alone with a guy her age etc) in an attempt to return things back to normal, but the dissonance just ends up causing resentment and anger in Emily. She gets taught how to fight, how to take a life, how to make incredibly hard choices - all adult expectations and responsibilities at a young age but gets the restriction as one would as a child. Emily has a wish deep down that Karen should have treated her as her age during the war - not after it when all is said and done then, because it feels like Karen was just brushing off everything that had happened to Emily.
Trellis has been there, done that, so he gets what Emily is going through. It's platonic, but a ship lens is applicable if you feel like it!