Predator’s gaze
Fleur leaves a strong impression on Elizabeth upon her arrival in the Mauser home. It is not only her physical appearance that is striking but the piercing gaze, which gave Elizabeth the feeling as though she was watched and assessed by a predator, which would prove to be not far from the truth further on in the novel.
Sweet youth like ancient pines
The main antagonist of the novel, a white man called James Mauser, who infamously took advantage of Native American girls, is Fleur’s main target of revenge. Just as he took the young girls’ youths, he stripped of the ancient pines from their lands.
A hunter in the woods
Fleur came to work for the Mausers for one reason only, which is to avenge her people. She is not rash in her accomplishing of the revenge, she assesses and memorizes. She memorizes the sounds of the house and gets to know it the way a hunter knows his woods.
Time is the water in which we live
Fleur came to the house to enact revenge thinking that she is in complete control of her fate and the spirits of her mother’s name, the name Four Souls. But time had shown to have different plans for her fate. It is compared to the water in which we live and breathe it like fish, unknowing of its direction. Fleur thought she could choose hers.
