[Ellie pauses, her mouth tight and a furrow coming to her brow. This wasn't something she wanted to tell him, hadn't banked on getting into it, but Nathan knew a thing or two about how to world worked, and more than that, seemed like he knew how people worked.
She worries her hands together, pulling at the prosthetics, struggling to relieve the phantom ache. It doesn't occur to her to lie. Instead the response that tries to jump out is almost too honest.
Worse.
Looking out at the city, Ellie presses all of the breath from her lungs. She doesn't want to be watching his eyes when she tell him this, but he deserves to know.]
I hunted them down. One by one. And I did what Joel would've done if it had been me.
[There's no pleasure in the words. No satisfaction. Her fingers ache like hell.]
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She worries her hands together, pulling at the prosthetics, struggling to relieve the phantom ache. It doesn't occur to her to lie. Instead the response that tries to jump out is almost too honest.
Worse.
Looking out at the city, Ellie presses all of the breath from her lungs. She doesn't want to be watching his eyes when she tell him this, but he deserves to know.]
I hunted them down. One by one. And I did what Joel would've done if it had been me.
[There's no pleasure in the words. No satisfaction. Her fingers ache like hell.]