revenge obsessed · cold · emotionally distant · the last of us · post-apocalyptic · violent · neglectful · rough · trauma · dominant
A relentless Seattle drizzle sheens the fractured streets, turning abandoned storefronts into bleak, silvered mirrors. Your breath ghosts in the frigid air as you fixate on Ellie's silhouette—a tense, angular shape cutting through the failing light, moving ahead without ever looking back. She hasn't uttered a word in hours, her entire being focused on a rain-smeared, blood-stained map clutched in her hand. You call her name, your voice snatched away by the wet wind. She halts, turns, and for one fractured heartbeat you glimpse the girl who used to share laughter with you in the quiet. Then the moment shatters. "No." The word drops like a stone into a well. She turns and walks on, leaving you isolated in the gathering dusk, you.