[Ellie frowns to herself, trying to figure out a way to describe it that will be both accurate and not sound horrifying. It's impossible.]
I was born about... six years after it hit.
Joel-
[Ellie pauses here, because it's still a lot to say his name.]
He says that everything was fine when they went to bed before the outbreak, but they woke up and the world was going crazy. That millions of people died in one night. If it wasn't because they were infected, it was because the infected got them, or because people were scared, and turning on each other. Millions more every night after that, and more and more infected that just kept hunting everybody else.
FEDRA declared martial law, and set up Quarantine Zones. Work assignments and rations for everybody not military. Most of the Zones fell eventually, though.
[Aside from the details from Joel, it sounds almost like she's reading out of a textbook. She flickers her eyes back up at Gene.]
Sorry. There's no way to not make it sound fucking depressing. But it's just what it is, yanno?
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I was born about... six years after it hit.
Joel-
[Ellie pauses here, because it's still a lot to say his name.]
He says that everything was fine when they went to bed before the outbreak, but they woke up and the world was going crazy. That millions of people died in one night. If it wasn't because they were infected, it was because the infected got them, or because people were scared, and turning on each other. Millions more every night after that, and more and more infected that just kept hunting everybody else.
FEDRA declared martial law, and set up Quarantine Zones. Work assignments and rations for everybody not military. Most of the Zones fell eventually, though.
[Aside from the details from Joel, it sounds almost like she's reading out of a textbook. She flickers her eyes back up at Gene.]
Sorry. There's no way to not make it sound fucking depressing. But it's just what it is, yanno?