"Depends on how it happened. He'd be pretty murderous about it though: Ellie is the closest thing he has to a kid. Clem is...I dunno, I like her. She's sweet and scrappy and shit like that. She gets kind of a raw deal, being turned into shit she hates, winning the Arena and not being a mentor, then thrown down a ravine or whatever."

Not that their deaths were all too nice.

"Yeah," she said, making a face. "I understand that. More than you know. Still can't sleep right these days. Like some fucked up PTSD."