It is the Witch's Road... and there was more of them? Not by then, but...

I think you can't do the Road alone. I also don't think it's just that.

She tried taking care of him before? And she seems to know him - the... before him. That's why it feels like even if like she's undeniably a bad person - [ maybe he is too!!! he IS. he does not say this ] - I don't think she'd hurt him. Definitely not until they finish the Road.