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While reading manga, I noticed sometimes in a balloon there is an extra empty line, like here:
Which meaning does it carry? I'm wondering if it's meant to separate the two sentences, like saying that たった一輪の「華」なのだよ is separate from, not modified by, the previous sentence; but I'm not sure, and the comma after 「添えられた」 adds to the confusion.
Manga typesetting is a science in itself, but in this instance I think there is no "empty line", it is just some extra space that visually separates the part in the larger font (larger for emphasis / louder voice) from the rest of the sentence.
In general such white space might also indicate a brief pause.
