A little reminder of the Boy's fear of the dark. Or rather a new aspect? The Boy counting is a detail but it shows he knows how long the light stays on; his fear had "shaped" him, it's the kind of things he made sure to know. (and he presses again on all floors, as a precaution).
Mr Gaston acting like the mirror character here, highlighting Tera's strength and youth, which the Boy doesn't acknowledge for now lol.
PS. Those Parisian doors the Boy struggles to open at the beginning are very heavy.
Just think of two boys, thinking they’re in the right place, comfortable in their everyday life. Nothing to break their plans for the future. And suddenly they crash on that other one, who is so different and far away from what they know that it blows up their world. But now someone is looking at them. Seeing them for the first time. And they are so moved and overwhelmed by that feeling that they are ready to give up on everything else, and escape from, they realize it now, what was a prison.
Because they’ve met each other, their respective worlds have come apart, it's like a collision. And now they are an anchor for each other, the only compass in this new world where they are lost.
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