[ Ellie can't help but laugh at that last part. Sob stories. She's never even heard of it put that way. Probably because no one really talks about anything back home, and mostly because everyone has generally gone through the same thing. And the laughter is out of pure embarrassment and nerves. ]
Sure.
[ She heavily exhales. Ellie has explained where she came from a few times, but never her personal experiences. Maybe this will work out? Maybe it won't be so bad to tell someone outside of the whole situation. ]
My world? It ended about twenty years ago. An infection broke out that took down a good chunk of the human population that turned normal people into monsters. Government went haywire, towns got blown up...
I was born way after the wreckage and raised in military camps and quarantine zones.
[ The part where she got infected along with her friend? She decides to remain vague, for her's and Joel's sake. ]
Well, I left with Joel at some point to make a trek across the country and... It wasn't exactly easy.
Before I got here, he... Joel got really messed up and I wound up needing to take care of the two of us. I ran into a pack of hunters and wound up, for lack of a better term, getting captured. They were cannibals...
I watched them hack a dead body to pieces to drain the blood and hang up in a meat locker for later.
[ Ellie starts to get sick to her stomach when she begins to picture David. Immediately, she can smell his breath, hear his voice, and she makes a long pause before letting out another shaken sigh. ]
Everyone is out to get you back there. People hunt one another-- Kill and eat one another just to fucking get by and it's almost unnerving that it hasn't happened here yet.
A lot of people have told me that I'll like living a "normal" life and I literally have no idea what the fuck that is. What I just told you? That was normal.
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[ Ellie can't help but laugh at that last part. Sob stories. She's never even heard of it put that way. Probably because no one really talks about anything back home, and mostly because everyone has generally gone through the same thing. And the laughter is out of pure embarrassment and nerves. ]
Sure.
[ She heavily exhales. Ellie has explained where she came from a few times, but never her personal experiences. Maybe this will work out? Maybe it won't be so bad to tell someone outside of the whole situation. ]
My world? It ended about twenty years ago. An infection broke out that took down a good chunk of the human population that turned normal people into monsters. Government went haywire, towns got blown up...
I was born way after the wreckage and raised in military camps and quarantine zones.
[ The part where she got infected along with her friend? She decides to remain vague, for her's and Joel's sake. ]
Well, I left with Joel at some point to make a trek across the country and... It wasn't exactly easy.
Before I got here, he... Joel got really messed up and I wound up needing to take care of the two of us. I ran into a pack of hunters and wound up, for lack of a better term, getting captured. They were cannibals...
I watched them hack a dead body to pieces to drain the blood and hang up in a meat locker for later.
[ Ellie starts to get sick to her stomach when she begins to picture David. Immediately, she can smell his breath, hear his voice, and she makes a long pause before letting out another shaken sigh. ]
It... It got really bad when I tried to escape.
And...
[ Calm down, Ellie. It's not happening now, it's not. ]
Everyone is out to get you back there. People hunt one another-- Kill and eat one another just to fucking get by and it's almost unnerving that it hasn't happened here yet.
A lot of people have told me that I'll like living a "normal" life and I literally have no idea what the fuck that is. What I just told you? That was normal.