[It takes Tess a moment to puzzle over why this matters to him, and she decides she doesn't care –– it's a change of topic, and she'll take it. She breathes a long sigh, one that feels like it's bottoming out her lungs, and she nods, looking over them.]
That's about Ellie, yeah.
So this is where I live. My partner and I are smugglers, we move contraband in and out of the city. Mostly guns, alcohol and drugs, but I do a little bit of everything. I like to have options.
[ She runs over the events of the day in her mind, and she leans over on one hand to study the maps with him. Must be strange, putting together her life from something like this. It's all marked in Joel's neat little block letters, her little remarks in his hand. ]
The day before I got here, the Fireflies hired us. They were desperate and a whole bunch of Fireflies had died already, so I talked my way into a pretty big payout. A big cache of guns in exchange for smuggling the kid.
[Tess pauses and catches his glance, looks at him real hard and feels out his thoughts on smuggling children. It feels right to assure him that she is a bad person, anyway.]
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That's about Ellie, yeah.
So this is where I live. My partner and I are smugglers, we move contraband in and out of the city. Mostly guns, alcohol and drugs, but I do a little bit of everything. I like to have options.
[ She runs over the events of the day in her mind, and she leans over on one hand to study the maps with him. Must be strange, putting together her life from something like this. It's all marked in Joel's neat little block letters, her little remarks in his hand. ]
The day before I got here, the Fireflies hired us. They were desperate and a whole bunch of Fireflies had died already, so I talked my way into a pretty big payout. A big cache of guns in exchange for smuggling the kid.
[Tess pauses and catches his glance, looks at him real hard and feels out his thoughts on smuggling children. It feels right to assure him that she is a bad person, anyway.]