Veil - Vol. 2 - Chapter 19

Dialogue Transcript Veil — Vol. 2 - Chapter 19 60

Temperature of the heart

[Emma]: Say, give me your hand?

[Aleksander]: Here.

[Emma]: Hmm, I see...

[Aleksander]: What's going on?

[Aleksander]: Oho...

[Emma]: I wonder if I can tell what's in your heart...

[Aleksander]: Pardon?

[Emma]: Since when do hearts wear gloves?

[Aleksander]: Here we go again.

[Aleksander]: I guess...

[Aleksander]: Hmm...

[Emma]: Your heart.

[Emma]: Seems complicated to me regardless.

[Emma]: I'm not a doctor, so I'm not sure...

[Aleksander]: An ashtray.

[Aleksander]: That'll be all.

[Emma]: Apparently, the size of your hand

[Emma]: is the same as the size of your heart.

[Aleksander]: You learn something new every day.

[Aleksander]: Thanks to you putting my "heart" in the open.

[Aleksander]: The lemon pasta, and...

[Emma]: Thoughts, feelings...

[Emma]: Things like those can't be seen so simply.

[Aleksander]: If everything could be found in the palms of our hands, life would be much easier.

[Emma]: I think it's trying to make it's way outside.

[Emma]: "Let me out!"

[Emma]: It's the heart wanting to see for itself what's going on...

Here you are...

Today, the house also offers another fragrance, should you wish for a second cup.

[Emma]: Thank you.

[Emma]: You have to respond some way or another, it's impolite otherwise.

[Aleksander]: Your story just left me... speechless, that's all...

[Emma]: Oh...

[Emma]: I suppose it can be nice to listen in silence.

[Emma]: Mh.

[Aleksander]: What's happened to you?

[Emma]: That's why, usually, we look to the face's expression...

[Emma]: It's a little more acces- sible...

[Emma]: You know...

[Emma]: When your heart races...

[Emma]: I...

[Emma]: "Look at all of me!" it says...

[Emma]: "Why am I beating so hard?

Your pasta and

a Highland Toffee tea.

As well as the ashtray.

[Emma]: Just a thank you for presenting me your hand.

[Aleksander]: You really are a mystery...

[Emma]: Delicious!

[Emma]: Do you think so?

[Aleksander]: Yes.

[Aleksander]: Very much so.

[Aleksander]: I don't think you could be more mys- terious.

[Aleksander]: Going back to the heart...

[Aleksander]: Even I can't really read it. It's quite troublesome.

[Emma]: Like me, then?

[Aleksander]: Yeah. Like you.

[Aleksander]: But I suppose...

[Aleksander]: The trouble isn't all that bad.

Chapter Summary

In Veil Vol. 2 - Chapter 19, Emma asks Aleksander for his hand in a café to try reading his heart. She examines his palm, calls it complicated, and muses that hearts want to be seen through racing beats and facial expressions. Aleksander admits he cannot really read hearts, compares the trouble to Emma herself, and says the trouble isn't all that bad.

Chapter Analysis Veil — Vol. 2 - Chapter 19

Veil Vol. 2 - Chapter 19 opens in a café with Emma asking Aleksander for his hand so she can try to read his heart. She studies his palm and calls it complicated, then jokes about hearts wearing gloves before noting that the size of a hand is said to match the size of a heart. Aleksander plays along, thanking her for putting his heart in the open, while their exchange is briefly interrupted by ordering lemon pasta, Highland Toffee tea, and an ashtray. The heart of Veil Vol. 2 - Chapter 19 is Emma's reflection on how thoughts and feelings cannot be seen so simply. She suggests that if everything could be found in the palms of our hands, life would be much easier, and describes the heart as trying to make its way outside to see for itself. She adds that people usually look to facial expression because it is more accessible, and that a racing heart feels like it is demanding to be looked at in full. Aleksander listens in silence, admitting her story left him speechless, which Emma accepts as its own polite form of response. That quiet listening leads to a tender admission to close Veil Vol. 2 - Chapter 19, as Aleksander says even he cannot really read hearts and calls it quite troublesome. When Emma asks if that makes him like her, he agrees, then softens the comparison by saying the trouble isn't all that bad. The choice reframes her blindness and his emotional reserve not as barriers, but as a shared complication they are willing to sit with over a meal.

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Next: Vol. 2 - Chapter 20

Veil — Vol. 2 - Chapter 19

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Chapter Analysis: Veil — Vol. 2 - Chapter 19