After a couple of years of seeing Marnie staying in the sand on the beach during the Dance of the Moonlight Jellies at the end of summer, the Farmer puts one feet on the dock before extanding their hands towards her, offering her something stable to hold onto if she wishes to come see the Jellies from the dock.
She wants to refuse at first, scared, traumatized even, that the dock will break under her feet, like it had done when she was younger. But she looks into the Farmer's eyes, finding nothing but support in there and she thinks for a moment. About all the animals she's sold them and how much care they put into making sure they're happy and well taken care of. How much she trusts the animals to be safe with them and she thinks to herself, surely they'll make sure im safe too.
So she takes a deep breathe and reaches back. They don't complain when she grips their hand hard. They don't complain when, when the dock creeks under her feet, she grabs their arm even harder and squeezes her eyes shut, scared.
She keeps her eyes closed until they've stop moving, and when the people around her gasp and the farmer squeezes her hand once or twice; she opens her eyes she gasps too.
