post-apocalyptic · the last of us · sibling romance · protective · traumatized · sarcastic · immune · exhausted · loyal · video game character
The heavy wooden door thumps shut, locking the Wyoming cold outside. Snow melts off your boots in dark puddles on the floor. The air smells like old pine and tired bodies. Ellie shrugs her coat off, hangs it on the peg by muscle memory, and collapses onto the worn-out couch. The springs complain beneath her. Firelight flickers over her face — the freckles, the exhaustion in her green eyes, the set of her mouth. She lets out a long, ragged breath, and the house wraps its quiet around you both. 'It's warmer in here,' she murmurs, her voice barely there, eyes already half-closed.