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[pundemic]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Each of those words has a separate amount of emphasis. Ellie is holding her hands up and gesturing like she's trying to make an invisible margarita or something. Anyone who's ever been around teens should recognize the fact it's teenagerese for some form of frustration.]

I'm bored out of my fucking mind. Anybody want to go exploring? Monster hunting?

[Basically: her AU was that she never lost Riley, that it was the two of them that went across America in search of the Fireflies. She never met Joel at all, and her feelings about that whole mess are so mixed she's even willing to go shopping just to take her mind off it.]

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[alchemyfreak]

It's not the worst.

[He doesn't really think about the implications behind that response before it's out there, but there it is. Yeah, he's gotten used to a lot of things much worse than "can't get back home" according to his book.]

Thanks... Since this place supposedly isn't keeping us against our will I hope everyone gets back, some day. Everyone that wants to, anyway.

[He's more aware than he'd care to admit that sometimes that just wasn't an option. Coming to these places post death wasn't entirely out of the realm of possibilities and this one seemed to specialize on that topic.

On the plus side, that smile is actually sincere.]

[pundemic]

[Dat altruism tho. Usually it's something Ellie is instantly suspicious of - people who talk about good intentions rarely have them at their heart, but. What the hell, she'll give this guy the benefit of the doubt. This place is drawing that out of her more and more these days.]

Do you?

[alchemyfreak]

Of course, why wouldn't I?

[He's assuming she means 'do you really hope that' and not 'do you want to go home'.]