Oh wow. This is...it's gorgeous, really, this thick layering of details and nuances and slivers of life that makes it easy to get totally lost in the story. Best of all is the progression of Elizabeth's suffocation (and Will's, too, hinted at in there), the way she suffers through the stifling obligation to stay the same way she suffers through corsets, and then the slow release of all that tension as they get closer to finding Jack and shedding everything that bound them so uncomfortably. It's subtle but sort of palpable, with a kind of urgency for even the *reader* for them to break free so that everyone can just breathe again.
I'm just sort of amazed and in love with it as a whole. Thank you so much!
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Date: 2007-04-22 09:51 pm (UTC)I'm just sort of amazed and in love with it as a whole. Thank you so much!