Cage slips into uniform and smiles like a home run. Penelope Cruz is an actress who absorbs emotion. She transcends the picture postcard perfection to hint at love's bitter cruelty. Her eyes question the very idea of happiness, as if somewhere in Pelagia's soul a dark shadow lurks. She carries this knowledge inside her, so that when disaster strikes, she is protected.
Excitement is a long time coming, but when it does, debris scatters across Eden.
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