I never had, before I came here. But there are so many in the lake, swimming and squirming and laying eggs and growing. They sit in my hands so sweetly.
[ Furiosa shouldn't smile. She shouldn't almost laugh. It's a world so far away, a lifetime ago. She was a serious child, but she remembers dissolving into peels of laughter then before her mothers scolded her. ]
My mother made me shell the nut crop until my fingers were numb as punishment.
I like the way they sing. I thought it was birds or insects at night. There are some, but you can hear the frogs too. Did you know that?
That's most of the world, but that isn't my home. My home was a green piece of it, unspoiled. Like parts of the Old World before the Old World was ruined. It was one of the only places left like it I think.
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Would you like to go swimming with me?
[ Is this what it's like to make plans with friends... ]
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[They're so good at friendship!]
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I dropped one down her tunic.
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[ Furiosa shouldn't smile. She shouldn't almost laugh. It's a world so far away, a lifetime ago. She was a serious child, but she remembers dissolving into peels of laughter then before her mothers scolded her. ]
My mother made me shell the nut crop until my fingers were numb as punishment.
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Perhaps you cured her of a fear of frogs through exposure? She ought to have thanked you.
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That's what I thought!
What a silly thing to be afraid of, frogs.
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Your home is like mine, isn't it? All sand and thirst and sun.
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That's most of the world, but that isn't my home. My home was a green piece of it, unspoiled. Like parts of the Old World before the Old World was ruined. It was one of the only places left like it I think.
Was your home always like that? Sand and sun?
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A green piece? You were on a planet that became a desert, then. Was it terraformed, or was it just humanity?
Arrakis was. We were changing it, bringing it water and green again.
Perhaps we shouldn't have.
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Australia. That's what my world was called.
Why would you want it to be green again?
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Men do such things all over. Destroying worlds.
The city people want it. But Fremen, Fedaykin -- they worry it will make us soft.
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"Do not, my friends, become addicted to water, it will take hold of you and you will resent its absence."
I hate him.
There is nothing noble in keeping people suffering.