Something like that. Ivy's the real bitch, you never know if you're gonna tear down a wall.
[She's helped with enough cleanup out in Jackson, squeezed through enough crumbling buildings. Strange, thinking of how much this place looks like what she's used to.
But Peter asks a more difficult question, and Ellie takes a bite of her own, frowning, trying to figure out how to put it best. Trying to figure how to not freak him out too bad.]
This kind of... alternate reality. But we didn't remember this place, or where we were from. We had a whole new set of memories, like we'd always lived there. It was this great big dome called the Aerie, and everyone in the whole world was crammed inside it because nowhere else could support life.
Overpopulation was a thing, though, so if you committed any kind of crime, you went to the Quarry.
[Ellie's expression darkens, but she tries to keep her voice neutral.]
They held them every month. Everybody in there had to fight to the death, until there was only one person left. They got to live.
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[She's helped with enough cleanup out in Jackson, squeezed through enough crumbling buildings. Strange, thinking of how much this place looks like what she's used to.
But Peter asks a more difficult question, and Ellie takes a bite of her own, frowning, trying to figure out how to put it best. Trying to figure how to not freak him out too bad.]
This kind of... alternate reality. But we didn't remember this place, or where we were from. We had a whole new set of memories, like we'd always lived there. It was this great big dome called the Aerie, and everyone in the whole world was crammed inside it because nowhere else could support life.
Overpopulation was a thing, though, so if you committed any kind of crime, you went to the Quarry.
[Ellie's expression darkens, but she tries to keep her voice neutral.]
They held them every month. Everybody in there had to fight to the death, until there was only one person left. They got to live.