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The path back from Nexus to the New Green Place is narrow, dark and rocky. If Max has any lingering claustrophobia from his bad experiences in War Boy tunnels, it might feel more than a little unpleasant...still, it's a brief journey, and the light that filters through from the Citadel-end is partly natural light from the open bays of the lower garage.
"Maybe we'll call this the Fool's Road," she tells him, keeping her voice going even and calm to reassure him. He's not really feral, she knows now, just aching and twitchy from hundreds of invisible old wounds. That's still plenty of reason to handle with care. "It brought you back to us."
What she actually means is it brought him back to her. For all that she doesn't care for being possessed, she's certainly capable of being possessive; since she knows that's a double standard, she keeps it subtle as she can. Either way, he's back for now and it's up to her to show him the place is worth coming back to.
Furiosa is not a simple woman; the girl from the Green Place lives, buried under layers of flash-points, traumas, triumphs, calluses, and lessons both hard and soft. Getting to that part of her is like worming through a psychic labyrinth full of wrong turns and bad ends. It's hard for Furiosa to do it. For all her own complexity, though, sometimes her thinking is very direct, and maybe a bit too straightforward. She'll do her best to prove to Max this place can be home, and maybe he'll wander again, but she can hope he'll keep on coming back to them. To her.
Hope is a mistake? Time will tell.
"Maybe we'll call this the Fool's Road," she tells him, keeping her voice going even and calm to reassure him. He's not really feral, she knows now, just aching and twitchy from hundreds of invisible old wounds. That's still plenty of reason to handle with care. "It brought you back to us."
What she actually means is it brought him back to her. For all that she doesn't care for being possessed, she's certainly capable of being possessive; since she knows that's a double standard, she keeps it subtle as she can. Either way, he's back for now and it's up to her to show him the place is worth coming back to.
Furiosa is not a simple woman; the girl from the Green Place lives, buried under layers of flash-points, traumas, triumphs, calluses, and lessons both hard and soft. Getting to that part of her is like worming through a psychic labyrinth full of wrong turns and bad ends. It's hard for Furiosa to do it. For all her own complexity, though, sometimes her thinking is very direct, and maybe a bit too straightforward. She'll do her best to prove to Max this place can be home, and maybe he'll wander again, but she can hope he'll keep on coming back to them. To her.
Hope is a mistake? Time will tell.
