When Capable leaves the shelter through the side door and spots him for the first time as he tries to jimmy the door of Furiosa's car open, for a moment she thinks that he is a ghost. He is pale in the half-light, stick-limbed and terribly gaunt. She stands with her hand still on the door and her breath in her throat until she realizes what he's trying to do, and then she gathers herself and takes a step forwards, the heel of her combat boot smacking on the pavement.

"What are you doing?"

She steals a glance over the back of her shoulder as the door thuds behind her, heart lurching into her throat at the thought of having just cut herself off from the rest of her sisters. Surely they'd hear her if she shouted.