She looked away- toward the windows. 'I can hear your heart,' she said quietly.

'When I sleep, I can hear your heart beating through the stone.' She angled her head, as if the city view held some answer. 'Can you hear mine?'

'No, lady. I cannot.'

'No one ever does. No one ever looked- not really.'

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Is this scene really about hearing a heart beating? Or is is about something else? Is she actually saying ‘I see you deep down, can you see me too?’

I feel this scene really encompasses whom Elain really is as a character. People see her as they want to see her: the sweet sister, the preetiest one, the fragile one, the gardener, the seer, the mate…but nobody really sees her for who she really is deep down. Nobody sees her outside of their own preconceptions. Nobody sees her for HER, for how she wants to be seen, for what’s deep beneath the surface. People say quiet waters run deep and I believe that’s how her book is going to play out. There’s a lot to Elain that has been overlooked and nobody has figured out.