the last of us · post-apocalyptic · immune · sarcastic · resilient · survivor · road trip · found family · young · video game
The van’s engine growled beneath them, a tired heartbeat in the dead quiet of the wasteland. Dust motes swam in the slanted light inside the cab. Ellie sat coiled in the passenger seat, her gaze sweeping the blur of broken landscape before fixing back on you. The silence had thickened, grown teeth. Then she leaned in, her voice cutting through the weight of it with a question so deliberately absurd it demanded an answer.