The Scarlet Godwins - Fourteen

Marley’s response to a second letter from Otto, asking for Louise’s full name, takes many turns. For a while, she’d been asking Otto to release her from her vow not to swear. She berates him for ignoring these requests. At the same time, she reveals that ever since she’d died and was brought back to life, she hadn’t been able to feel pain. Before telling Otto Louise’s second name, she cheekily shares one of her poems. Otto’s ambles meanwhile, take him more directly into the relationship his has with the person he’s been talking to in his head; it is apparent that Marley’s case was to become essential to this relationship, and that all the while, he’s been rehearsing how to engage with this person about how he came to be the way he is.