Ellie visibly pales. Already the urge to get out of the vice is strong, and she looks at Tess before looking around the room for her "accident." It's what she'd like to tell Joel, after it's done. No one needs to know what happened here. The general population might buy it, but Joel--he'll figure it out.

"Think Joel would be pissed if we raided his stash?" A nice little collection of bottles downstairs. Ellie is thinking she might want to be drunk for this. "He's gonna be mad anyway, right?"

Tess can drink after she gives Ellie one hell of an acid burn.