Rowan tends to her son Bartholomew's injury while explaining the metaphorical significance of healing and scars. She uses the imagery of a tree to teach her children that emotional and physical recovery takes time and becomes a vital part of one's personal history.
ROWAN: There, Bartholomew, it will heal.
BARTHOLOMEW: Will I have a scar?
ROWAN: You may. But that’s no bad thing. It grows a beautiful scar over the wound, for protection, and soon the scar becomes part of the tree and of its story.
AGNES: Why does it take so long?
ROWAN: Because if it covers over
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