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PagesDaal, two young mouse women who have secretly loved one another since childhood packing up the little bakery where they worked together, because one is leaving their village tomorrow to see the wider world. Neither has ever confessed. Flour hangs softly in late-evening light while they wrap cups, stack chairs, and avoid the one conversation that matters. One discovers that every paper pastry bag from the past year has a tiny portrait of her drawn on the hidden underside by the other—laughing, yawning, carrying bread, watching rain. She is standing alone beside an open drawer filled with hundreds of these unnoticed sketches while her friend works in the back room, unaware of the discovery. Do not show the confession; show the possibility of one. A packed travel bag waits beside the door and the final unsold strawberry tart sits between two forks. Painterly storybook realism, tender illustrated naturalism, soft bakery amber against blue twilight windows, tiny domestic details, enormous expressive eyes, subtle grain and brush texture, visual storytelling about all the ways love reveals itself accidentally, like the penultimate spread of a beloved romance where turning the page suddenly feels unbearable.