[ it feels like too much to ask who joel was to ellie at this point, too. her siblings are always a sensitive topic, given how long she'd been searching for them and how tragically most of their encounters had ended. ellie moves on to another topic and she's passingly grateful before realizing it's another weird topic.

(so no, definitely not cool and confident about everything.) ]

Oh, uh - [ she rubs at her wrist, looking at it momentarily before looking back at ellie ] - I didn't have this before coming here. I was somewhere else before waking up in New Tokyo, somewhere I guess most of the people were? Only they had memories of different lives they'd thought they'd been living there, and all I could remember was home.