So much under this dark water, so much history and misunderstanding. The tragedy is when people love each other but can't give what the other needs. I feel this here. How much of what he's doing is acting out against her or how much is an essential journey into his own deep nature is too early to know. But what she feels is just an early harbinger of his manhood. Whatever he might hear she would lose him by degrees. If there is comfort, it might be that this early hardening is actually what will save him in the end. Or destroy him. *shivers*