Veil - Vol. 1 - Chapter 14

Dialogue Transcript Veil — Vol. 1 - Chapter 14 70

[Aleksander]: Someone asked me to see if you'd model for some photos.

[Emma]: Ah.

[Emma]: Modelling...

[Aleksander]: Uuh... in a way, yes.

[Emma]: it's someone that changes clothes all the time, right?

[Emma]: Makeup, too?

[Aleksander]: And since you love dressing up...

[Aleksander]: Well, it's true. That's what a model is.

[Aleksander]: And a lot of people will be looking at you.

[Aleksander]: And you told me you like to do all sorts of things...

[Emma]: Yes, that's true...

[Emma]: More than I can ever dream to carry.

[Aleksander]: My fault?

[Emma]: The pockets and buttons are so funny!

[Emma]: They're all really nice to feel.

[Emma]: They're so soft.

[Emma]: This coat, for example, is so soft, I love it!

[Aleksander]: I'm glad you like them.

It's like burning...

[Aleksander]: The guy we met in the hall the other day...

[Aleksander]: Do you remember?

[Aleksander]: He's a photogra-

[Emma]: Is he, now...?

[Aleksander]: And you become a sign for high brand shops.

[Aleksander]: The shops on the big avenues.

[Aleksander]: In some big display...

[Aleksander]: There'll be gigantic pictures of you...

[Emma]: Woah!

[Emma]: You sure have a vivid imagination.

[Emma]: You should share it with me.

[Emma]: By the way...

[Emma]: If I like dressing up so much, it's only your fault.

[Emma]: All those clothes in the wardrobe...

[Emma]: You're the one that chose them.

[Emma]: I don't even know how many there are.

[Emma]: Today, your voice is shaky I feel.

[Emma]: ...Would you be happy?

[Aleksander]: It'd be nice, I think...

[Aleksander]: Well... I don't know...

[Aleksander]: I don't know anything about it.

[Aleksander]: I have no clue...

[Emma]: Really, I thought you knew everything...? But not that.

[Emma]: When I answer the phone at the station...

[Emma]: That means that...

[Emma]: Or serve tea for everyone...

[Aleksander]: Is that true?

[Emma]: Yes.

[Aleksander]: You might not be fit for that job, then...

[Aleksander]: And yet, you're so pretty...

[Aleksander]: Go ahead.

[Emma]: And if more people than I can count on my fingers and toes...

[Emma]: Were to look at me like a model...

[Emma]: ...Or listen to music...

[Emma]: You don't know either! You don't realise...

[Emma]: I don't even know which way is up!

[Emma]: My head's so busy...

[Emma]: That I feel like my eyes are like spinning tops!

[Emma]: Say...

[Emma]: Can I ask you something?

[Emma]: Why don't you sit next to me?

[Emma]: And let me feel your face, come on.

[Emma]: Stay close to me, alright?

"Her"

Emma, 21 years old She grew up fed with a silver spoon. She likes to "touch". She hates doctors. She likes wine and spirits. She likes herbal tea. She has three older sisters, two younger sisters, and a dog.

"Him"

Aleksander, 23 years old He's a civil protection officer in Sashenka's police station. He likes reading. He's not a morning person. He smokes Chesterfield. He likes Assam tea. His half sister works in a cabaret.

[Emma]: Well, well...

[Emma]: You shouldn't stay like that, a thousand steps away from me.

Veil 1; Body temperature of Orange - END

Chapter Summary

In Veil Vol. 1 - Chapter 14, Emma faces Aleksander's hesitant modeling offer from the photographer they met in the hall. She puzzles over changing clothes, makeup, and crowds staring at gigantic pictures of her in shop displays, then teases that her love of dressing up is his fault since he chose her wardrobe. Sensing his shaky voice, she asks him to sit beside her and let her feel his face to stay close.

Chapter Analysis Veil — Vol. 1 - Chapter 14

Veil Vol. 1 - Chapter 14 centers on Aleksander passing along a hesitant modeling request to Emma from the photographer they met in the hall the other day. He explains what modeling involves in simple terms, changing clothes all the time, wearing makeup, and being looked at by a lot of people, even imagining gigantic pictures of her in big displays for high brand shops on the big avenues. Emma listens with curiosity and anxiety, repeating the word modelling as she tries to picture crowds staring at her and admits her head feels busy like her eyes are spinning tops. She puzzles through the idea by connecting it to her own life, noting she loves dressing up and touching soft textures like the pockets, buttons, and coat Aleksander chose for her wardrobe. In Veil Vol. 1 - Chapter 14 she teases him that if she likes dressing up so much it is only his fault, since he picked all those clothes without her knowing how many there are. When he asks if she would be happy doing it, she hesitates and says she does not know anything about it, while also pointing out that answering phones and serving tea at the station already means people look and listen to her in ways she cannot fully measure. The conversation turns intimate when Emma notices his voice is shaky and asks him to sit next to her instead of staying a thousand steps away. Veil Vol. 1 - Chapter 14 closes with her direct request to feel his face and stay close to her, shifting the focus from the uncertainty of modeling to her need for reassurance through touch.

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Next: Vol. 2 - Chapter 15

Veil — Vol. 1 - Chapter 14

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Chapter Analysis: Veil — Vol. 1 - Chapter 14