"It's okay," Ellie said, slowing down a little, because even if she could talk and go fast -- she couldn't, really -- it wasn't exactly convenient. Didn't exactly fit.
"It was- basically, the world ended," she said. "Before I was even born. There's this fungus that turns people into monsters, and when it showed up everything fell apart." She shrugged. "Like I said. Shitty world. But it was just sort of- how things were. Until I got here, where you still have ice cream trucks and, you know. Buildings where they just keep whole frozen fuckin' ponds."
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Date: 2016-06-02 09:38 am (UTC)"It was- basically, the world ended," she said. "Before I was even born. There's this fungus that turns people into monsters, and when it showed up everything fell apart." She shrugged. "Like I said. Shitty world. But it was just sort of- how things were. Until I got here, where you still have ice cream trucks and, you know. Buildings where they just keep whole frozen fuckin' ponds."