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• When she goes to the castle, they have to descend some stairs. Laura is scared and the man help her. But the proxemics are the complete reversal of before when she trapped the men. He’s in front of her and encouraging her to follow him. Laura fears that it is a trap.
• Laura is lonely as she doesn’t fit in with humans as well as not fitting in with her own kind and being unhappy in following what her own kind wants her to do