That Tess is - was - all on her lonesome isn't surprising, but it still sucks. The greater picture is beginning to come together, though; she and Joel must've had certain things in common to come together the way they had and loss had been one of them. Birds of a feather, people who lived through the outbreak and lost everything in the process.
"I'm sorry," she says a little softer - and though it isn't much, that's all she really has to offer in the face of all that. It's sincere for what it's worth. "That's... really shitty."
Man, this conversation has gone and gotten depressing; Ellie's shifting a little to lean in and look out the windshield toward the jungle on either side of them as the Cadillac rolls onward.
"Yeah, grew up in Boston. When you and Joel took me out, that was the first time I'd been outside the QZ. The woods were so cool... got to see fireflies - the real ones, I mean. Oh man--" She cuts off with a laugh, "and there were even fucking monkeys? Pretty awesome."
The novelty of the great outdoors might have faded some after months and months of roughing it, and her focus might've been much more tunnel vision toward the end of their journey with the (hopeful) end in sight, but... occasionally, there'd be something new that would take her by surprise.
"What about you? I'm guessing you ended up in Boston but you must've been all over before that, right?"
[ ooc: what have you done, now the flame of hope is alive inside me... I will be so sad if we don't get this now even if it's a pipe dream okay :'( imagine if we get Tess-Joel-Tommy shenanigans...... I want it 😠]
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"I'm sorry," she says a little softer - and though it isn't much, that's all she really has to offer in the face of all that. It's sincere for what it's worth. "That's... really shitty."
Man, this conversation has gone and gotten depressing; Ellie's shifting a little to lean in and look out the windshield toward the jungle on either side of them as the Cadillac rolls onward.
"Yeah, grew up in Boston. When you and Joel took me out, that was the first time I'd been outside the QZ. The woods were so cool... got to see fireflies - the real ones, I mean. Oh man--" She cuts off with a laugh, "and there were even fucking monkeys? Pretty awesome."
The novelty of the great outdoors might have faded some after months and months of roughing it, and her focus might've been much more tunnel vision toward the end of their journey with the (hopeful) end in sight, but... occasionally, there'd be something new that would take her by surprise.
"What about you? I'm guessing you ended up in Boston but you must've been all over before that, right?"
[ ooc: what have you done, now the flame of hope is alive inside me... I will be so sad if we don't get this now even if it's a pipe dream okay :'( imagine if we get Tess-Joel-Tommy shenanigans...... I want it 😠]