Guess it seems like you guys are pretty good to have in a place where it's all weird shit and nothing...normal.
[ But that's all perspective, too; she knows Infected are only normal to her. No one else here seems to have any idea what they are, or what they're like. Describing them doesn't do them justice. She could draw them, but fuck that. She draws enough morbid shit as it is.
She sort of snickers at the question. ]
Guess we are.
[ She leans closer to see the bite marks. Well...that's relatable, though not the vampire bit. Claire's slew of scars are impressive, of course. Ellie has the normal ones from all the shit she's been through, the one through her eyebrow, the nearly healed puckered arrow wound on her shoulder. That would take some doing to show, considering the layers she's wearing right now.
She has no idea what a ghoul even is. Some ghost type thing, she thinks, though she doesn't believe in ghosts and has no idea if ghosts are real and can hurt people in Claire's world. ]
Man, you got me beat.
[ More or less.
She pulls up her sleeve and holds out her right arm. The old bite mark is long gone how; she'd burned it with acid so it wouldn't look like a bite, all cysts and gnarled skin, a healed thing unlike any other living person. The twisting scar tissue of the burn is still there under the dark tattooed lines, but it doesn't look like anything.
She's only told two people about her immunity, but neither of them have seen the scar. ]
This one's a chemical burn. But...it covers up a bite. From an Infected.
[ It's a hard admission even when it means absolutely jack shit to someone else. ]
I'm immune, but people besides me aren't. I couldn't let anyone see it or they'd kill me before I had any chance to explain. Besides, like I wanted the reminder, you know?
[ She lets her sleeve go and her arm drop. She changes her tone when she announces the next one, because it's a lot easier to talk about. ]
Got a pretty sweet arrow wound here on my shoulder, but it's too cold to show you that one.
[ But wait. ]
Hang on a sec. You don't turn into a vampire if they bite you?
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[ But that's all perspective, too; she knows Infected are only normal to her. No one else here seems to have any idea what they are, or what they're like. Describing them doesn't do them justice. She could draw them, but fuck that. She draws enough morbid shit as it is.
She sort of snickers at the question. ]
Guess we are.
[ She leans closer to see the bite marks. Well...that's relatable, though not the vampire bit. Claire's slew of scars are impressive, of course. Ellie has the normal ones from all the shit she's been through, the one through her eyebrow, the nearly healed puckered arrow wound on her shoulder. That would take some doing to show, considering the layers she's wearing right now.
She has no idea what a ghoul even is. Some ghost type thing, she thinks, though she doesn't believe in ghosts and has no idea if ghosts are real and can hurt people in Claire's world. ]
Man, you got me beat.
[ More or less.
She pulls up her sleeve and holds out her right arm. The old bite mark is long gone how; she'd burned it with acid so it wouldn't look like a bite, all cysts and gnarled skin, a healed thing unlike any other living person. The twisting scar tissue of the burn is still there under the dark tattooed lines, but it doesn't look like anything.
She's only told two people about her immunity, but neither of them have seen the scar. ]
This one's a chemical burn. But...it covers up a bite. From an Infected.
[ It's a hard admission even when it means absolutely jack shit to someone else. ]
I'm immune, but people besides me aren't. I couldn't let anyone see it or they'd kill me before I had any chance to explain. Besides, like I wanted the reminder, you know?
[ She lets her sleeve go and her arm drop. She changes her tone when she announces the next one, because it's a lot easier to talk about. ]
Got a pretty sweet arrow wound here on my shoulder, but it's too cold to show you that one.
[ But wait. ]
Hang on a sec. You don't turn into a vampire if they bite you?