I think the main point here was to slowly incorporate the idea that the Boy sees his grandmother aging. He grew up with her, he can't imagine that she too could leave him. In this scene, he rejects the wheelchair as he rejects seeing her age. It will push the Boy to question what is "behind him" and what is "ahead of him."
And by 'ahead of him' I mean Tera.
Love the 2 final panels haha.
Things get much lighter after a few pages, and our boys are back together, don't worry :D
Just think of two boys, thinking they’re in the right place, comfortable in their everyday life. Nothing to break their plans for the future. And suddenly they crash on that other one, who is so different and far away from what they know that it blows up their world. But now someone is looking at them. Seeing them for the first time. And they are so moved and overwhelmed by that feeling that they are ready to give up on everything else, and escape from, they realize it now, what was a prison.
Because they’ve met each other, their respective worlds have come apart, it's like a collision. And now they are an anchor for each other, the only compass in this new world where they are lost.
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