Ellie learns a lot about him just by watching him react to this, and it would have been the takeaway even if he hadn't been good enough to explain out loud.
Mad and tried to kill everyone is a heavy thing to worry about in a you from somewhere else, though, and for the first time she wonders. There are surely universes where she took a different path. A much, much darker one.
Conversely, maybe she's the Ellie who took the darker path, and there's another her out there who settled on that sheep farm and never went to Seattle at all.
"Definitely there," she says with a wry smile. "So when you went to all these other alternate universes, you... went and found yourself in them? Shouldn't that break the space-time continuum or some shit like that?"
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Mad and tried to kill everyone is a heavy thing to worry about in a you from somewhere else, though, and for the first time she wonders. There are surely universes where she took a different path. A much, much darker one.
Conversely, maybe she's the Ellie who took the darker path, and there's another her out there who settled on that sheep farm and never went to Seattle at all.
"Definitely there," she says with a wry smile. "So when you went to all these other alternate universes, you... went and found yourself in them? Shouldn't that break the space-time continuum or some shit like that?"