Ellie is the kind of girl I wish I knew growing up. She's a completely good, sometimes hilariously and often profanely honest human being -- a true miracle, considering that the horrific wasteland presented in
The Last of Us is the only world she has ever known. She emerged as a beacon of hope in a world desperately trying to shed itself of humanity; she'd been bitten by an infected individual, but in the long time since then, her bite healed over, and she never turned.
The Last of Us: Left Behind is partly a remembrance of the day she was bitten.
Most of The Last of Us: Left Behind is set three weeks before the events of the core game. Ellie's in a military-run boarding school in the Boston quarantine zones when her best friend Riley Abel surprises her; she's now a Firefly, and she has something she desperately wants to show Ellie. What follows is nothing short of magical; a heartbreakingly nostalgic adventure through the joys of childhood friendship. And I refuse to spoil any of it.
