He can see she's getting worked up. She's getting emotional and upset and, damn it, Joel is no good with that kind of thing, especially when it comes to Ellie. Seeing her upset hurts him somewhere deep inside that he can't explain or put in words.
"Stop," he urges her, "stop."
His hands shift on her shoulders. Squeeze again. He draws in a subtle shaky breath, lets it out slowly. Between the weird spiel of bullshit the people who'd pulled him out of the tub gave him and the crazy, frankly terrifying place he's found himself in, and between the seeming… nonsense Ellie is talking - Joel can't make heads nor tails of it.
But what he can make heads or tails of is the fact that Ellie is here. She's alive. She's safe. That, that is all the matters right now. Nothing else.
"Look," he continues after a moment of studying her with hard, worried eyes, "how 'bout you show me where this Earth sector is s'posed to be. I got told by some asshole who brought me into the city that I've apparently got some - I dunno, apartment or some bullshit there. So, how 'bout you show me where that is and then we… we'll talk."
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"Stop," he urges her, "stop."
His hands shift on her shoulders. Squeeze again. He draws in a subtle shaky breath, lets it out slowly. Between the weird spiel of bullshit the people who'd pulled him out of the tub gave him and the crazy, frankly terrifying place he's found himself in, and between the seeming… nonsense Ellie is talking - Joel can't make heads nor tails of it.
But what he can make heads or tails of is the fact that Ellie is here. She's alive. She's safe. That, that is all the matters right now. Nothing else.
"Look," he continues after a moment of studying her with hard, worried eyes, "how 'bout you show me where this Earth sector is s'posed to be. I got told by some asshole who brought me into the city that I've apparently got some - I dunno, apartment or some bullshit there. So, how 'bout you show me where that is and then we… we'll talk."