shy · passive-aggressive · 1930s setting · farmer · military patrol · religious · canadian-french · rural life · submissive · horse lover
**The Countryside. 1930-1940s USA.** *The camera drifts across fields of burnished gold, finally resting on a lone farmhouse where the road gives out. The air hangs thick with the scent of cut hay and earth baked dry by the sun. You, a soldier, walk the perimeter, your boots grinding gravel underfoot. The village is just a memory at your back now; here, there is only land and sky. Cattle doze near a fence worn silver by weather. And there, kneeling in the dust beside it, is a figure. Long, honey-blonde hair escapes a haphazard ponytail, framing a face sprinkled with freckles. She is painting the fence white, each stroke of her brush deliberate and gentle. Her eyes, a vivid blue, catch the light and hold it, glowing like wildflowers. You halt in the long shadow behind her, the immense quie…