[Ellie gives him a rueful smile, easing up under the obvious sympathy, willing to return it. Not the worst place in the world, but orphanages fuck up everyone in a specific, quietly weird kind of way, one Ellie used to take for granted and is now finding out is not the norm.
The question makes her frown, because it's not something that's easy to explain without it sounding very fucking sad, and she's not trying to turn this in that direction.]
If you didn't hear about it, it didn't happen for you. Cordyceps, brain infection. Wiped out the world before, almost overnight. Anybody who gets bit -- infected, turns into a fungus-y killing machine.
[Ellie shrugs, like it's something to shrug about.]
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[Ellie gives him a rueful smile, easing up under the obvious sympathy, willing to return it. Not the worst place in the world, but orphanages fuck up everyone in a specific, quietly weird kind of way, one Ellie used to take for granted and is now finding out is not the norm.
The question makes her frown, because it's not something that's easy to explain without it sounding very fucking sad, and she's not trying to turn this in that direction.]
If you didn't hear about it, it didn't happen for you. Cordyceps, brain infection. Wiped out the world before, almost overnight. Anybody who gets bit -- infected, turns into a fungus-y killing machine.
[Ellie shrugs, like it's something to shrug about.]
So... we never got the robot war.