![]() ![]() When he doesn’t kiss her, Ra-on cracks open an eye, and he tells her, “Do not make requests. He pulls her close by the nape of the neck, and smiles when she closes her eyes. Yeong says it’s his turn, and asks if she’s mentally prepared. He readily assents to it all, including her added request for him to look at her all day instead of his books. Then Ra-on takes Yeong by the hand and makes a request to stay within a step of him all day, and to lean on his shoulder and nap on his knee. Yeong feigns a scolding attitude for all of two seconds before he breaks into a grin: “If you wanted me all to yourself so badly, I’ll allow it.” Ra-on replies that she requested to take on all the duties for the next few days, because she was unable to see Yeong for so long while he recovered from his injuries. In the morning as Ra-on finishes dressing Yeong, he notices that nobody else is around and asks if Eunuch Jang saddled her with all his duties. Yeong tells her he’ll forgive her since she came back safely. Ra-on keeps her smile in place until that hug, at which point it turns tearful. Yeong laughs, noting that she seems to be looking forward to it, then steps forward to embrace her. ![]() She looks at him brightly while he scolds her for being late, and asks if he means to “punish” her again. So later that night, Yeong waits outside Ra-on’s building, his face relaxing in relief when she arrives. Her mother is alarmed, insistent that they leave as soon as possible, but Ra-on promises to return soon: “He’s waiting. Ra-on cries for a moment, then asks her mother to let her go back today. But knowing the truth now just makes it all the more painful now, and Ra-on cries, “You should have kept me from knowing through the end.” Then she changes her mind: “No, you should have told me sooner.” Ra-on’s mother tells her not to hate her father too much he was trying to make the world a better place for her. She says she understands her mother now, doing everything she could to shield Ra-on from the fact that her father was a traitor responsible for the deaths of thousands of peasants. Now, Ra-on finally makes sense of all those things she didn’t understand before: Why she was forced to dress as a boy, and why they were constantly on the run. But of course, that’s the exact moment Ra-on arrives at the door, and she overhears the conversation with shock. Ra-on’s mother is determined to run away with Ra-on, and tells Teacher Dasan of her fears that somebody will make the link to her father. ![]() Sometimes it’s such a burden knowing everything! If only that didn’t make me so nervous about everyone else-everyone who doesn’t have the benefit of our dramatic irony and thus know what we do. Today puts us more in Ra-on’s shoes than I think we’ve been in a long time, and it’s an effective way to attune our emotions to hers, feeling the layers of meaning beneath the words she speaks and the smiles she sends. 403 OctoOctoMoonlight Drawn By Clouds: Episode 13 by javabeans ![]()
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