Well, ah. When you gather crops from the fields and such ... and also a metaphor for the, ah.
[ God damn it, how do you talk to kids about death? He knows the Girl is no stranger to death, but he still has a difficult time acknowledging that, that a child can already know how cruel the world is.
The fact that at her age, he already knew how cruel and strange the world is occurs to him and he shivers. Right. Be the adult you needed when you were a child and all that. ]
It's a metaphor for birth and death, darling. Harvest is when the souls of the dead are gathered together to travel to ... wherever they're going. Different souls have different destinations.
[ He considers the Girl's explanation carefully. ]
So she is a psychopomp. Like our Reaper. Maybe she is our Reaper. Gods wear different faces to different folk.
no subject
[ God damn it, how do you talk to kids about death? He knows the Girl is no stranger to death, but he still has a difficult time acknowledging that, that a child can already know how cruel the world is.
The fact that at her age, he already knew how cruel and strange the world is occurs to him and he shivers. Right. Be the adult you needed when you were a child and all that. ]
It's a metaphor for birth and death, darling. Harvest is when the souls of the dead are gathered together to travel to ... wherever they're going. Different souls have different destinations.
[ He considers the Girl's explanation carefully. ]
So she is a psychopomp. Like our Reaper. Maybe she is our Reaper. Gods wear different faces to different folk.