when characters take over
Here's an odd thing. Elizabeth was writing a letter, and Nathaniel just... decided it was his job, this time, to share the news. So he took over. I was thinking it would be Curiosity who took the pen and paper away from Elizabeth, but I find I was wrong.
It is definitely Nathaniel's voice, and more than that, I can feel Elizabeth's sense of pique about the whole thing. She doesn't like being coddled, you know. This is one of many ways in which she and I are nothing alike. I daydream about being coddled. Someone bringing me things I didn't even know I needed or wanted. Adjusting the shades and pillows, magically producing books I've been wanting to read. Offering to brush my hair. Shall I peel you a grape? That kind of thing. Of course I might really dislike it if I ever got what I daydream about. I probably would, because I'd be worried the whole time about what a terrible imposition I was being. It's not easy to shake off a Catholic upbringing, I tell you.
Elizabeth doesn't like the idea at all. Though she has good cause to take a rest, she bristles at the need and also at the fact that others won't let her forget the need.