So she would have gone in her sleep and never known the difference.
[Tess tries to make that sound less accusatory than it comes out, but there's really no way of avoiding that. Joel had still stripped Ellie of a choice, regardless of what it would have been, but how would she even know the difference? Tess stopped entertaining the thought of any higher power a long time ago, and as far as she's concerned, dead people don't know the difference.
Other than me, she supposes. Here she is, in Paradisa, alive when she's not supposed to be.
Tess changes her mind on a dime right there.]
... Providing she didn't end up here, anyhow. Never mind. But you can't have it both ways, Joel, get angry that they didn't give her a choice and then do the same fucking thing.
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So she would have gone in her sleep and never known the difference.
[Tess tries to make that sound less accusatory than it comes out, but there's really no way of avoiding that. Joel had still stripped Ellie of a choice, regardless of what it would have been, but how would she even know the difference? Tess stopped entertaining the thought of any higher power a long time ago, and as far as she's concerned, dead people don't know the difference.
Other than me, she supposes. Here she is, in Paradisa, alive when she's not supposed to be.
Tess changes her mind on a dime right there.]
... Providing she didn't end up here, anyhow. Never mind. But you can't have it both ways, Joel, get angry that they didn't give her a choice and then do the same fucking thing.