[The reality may be somewhat less idyllic than what Marianne is picturing, but her care for animals continues shining through -- even ones that are unfamiliar to her. For a moment, his mind wanders. There had been a Yeul who loved flowers, and one who wished to travel...was there a Yeul who loved animals, too?... His Yeul would have been overjoyed to see them, that much he knows for sure.

... ... ... Ah, but that's not exactly in the spirit of all this, is it?]

"Out of place" feels like the right description. Everything else in town is so humble, I'm surprised they managed to make any of this happen at all.

[Especially with that dress code. It's hard enough for him to get used to it, let alone the food vendors and farmers they're used to seeing.]

The people who made it came in from the desert, right? D'you think they might have been used to things being a little more like this?