Everyone I have cared for has either died, or left me. Everyone—fucking except for you! So don’t tell me I would be safer with somebody else, because the truth is, I would just be more scared.
– Ellie
Ellie was born several years after the spread of fungal pandemic. As a result, she grew up in an oppressive military Quarantine Zone in Boston, Massachusetts, with little knowledge of the world before infection. Before she died, Ellie’s mother, Anna, asked Marlene to watch Ellie. However, Ellie never really met Marlene until she was 13 years old.
13-year-old Ellie arrives at the Boston Quarantine Zone on a bus, to the sight of the military scanning a man for infection. She thinks nothing of it until the scan reads positive and a man is forced to his knees at gunpoint. This sight frightens her.
Once she is safely inside the gates, she and the other survivors leave the bus. She is approached by a soldier who knows her. He warns her not to pull any of her “old stunts” once she has settled in and tells her that he can no longer look after her. Ellie asks that he take her with him, but he refuses, citing his responsibility to his own family.
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