Ellie would turn to look at Joel as he spoke. Her eyes would flutter gently as she would come to terms with the penultimate truth. Her date with the fireflies was over, nothing she could do would change that now and the only thing that she could do now would be to move on from the past with Joel as her father figure. She would give another shallow sigh, moving her her teeth down to bite gently upon her bottom lip as she took the time to lift up the sleeve of her arm, glaring at the wound once again with a small frown. She knew that this bite would haunt her from now on until the end of days, but deep down she now knew that it was what made her who she was today. Yet in all honestly she wished none of it happened, because then she would have Riley back.

Ellie would run her fingers down the wound gently, trailing away at the slight mutations upon her skin before choking up in thought and covering it over again with the sleeve of her checkered hoodie as Joel would draw her attention back to the view of the vast forests and Tommy's settlement. She certainly saw it for all it's beauty, there was no denying that it was an amazing place to behold yet while stuck in her current mindset of discomfort and disappointment the only response her rebellious mind could give was. "Yeah, I guess." 

She would say this with gentle agitation before turning back to Joel, wandering off behind him as they continued their 'Hiking' towards the settlement.

"I don't know about the Hiking Joel.. But i'm starving!" She would say with a slight outburst as she would run over to Joel's side, smiling at him slightly as her voice slowly began to change into a more cheerful set of vocals as her hair would flow in the wind, a small smile appearing on her young face.