[In that case, strangely, the thing that comes out is Joe's rhetoric.
The man is a corpse, and a million miles and a universe away, but Furiosa has been thinking of him often since she was here, had his war-boy-whispers crawling under her skin. They're a kind of poetry, even if it's a sick kind, and they come back easily.
In neat, blocky little lines, under the race details, she inscribes;
I AM THE ONE WHO TOUCHES THE SUN RIDING TO VALHALLA WITNESS ME! AS I DIE HISTORIC FEED MY BLOOD AND BODY TO THE FURY ROAD
There's a power in the verse, and in getting it out, even if the indoctrination is probably still on the list of things it will be difficult for her to more than hint at.
She sets down the chalk, steps back, and dusts off her hands, satisfied. It leaves white dust marks on her legs, but that kind of grit is so far below Furiosa's radar. She puts her thumb between her teeth, to clean it absently, while she moves a little further back from the board and compares their writing a second time. Hers has jackknifed sideways a little, is badly askew, descending.]
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Date: 2015-07-01 01:02 pm (UTC)The man is a corpse, and a million miles and a universe away, but Furiosa has been thinking of him often since she was here, had his war-boy-whispers crawling under her skin. They're a kind of poetry, even if it's a sick kind, and they come back easily.
In neat, blocky little lines, under the race details, she inscribes;
RIDING TO VALHALLA
WITNESS ME! AS I DIE HISTORIC
FEED MY BLOOD AND BODY TO THE FURY ROAD
There's a power in the verse, and in getting it out, even if the indoctrination is probably still on the list of things it will be difficult for her to more than hint at.
She sets down the chalk, steps back, and dusts off her hands, satisfied. It leaves white dust marks on her legs, but that kind of grit is so far below Furiosa's radar. She puts her thumb between her teeth, to clean it absently, while she moves a little further back from the board and compares their writing a second time. Hers has jackknifed sideways a little, is badly askew, descending.]
You're practiced.