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[backpacking]

❝ ... Uh. Yup! This is Ellie!
Leave your message, or... whatever,
and I'll probably see you around before I listen to it, honestly. ❞

[ BEEEEEEEP ]

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[luckynumberthree]

[ The text comes early on the third morning of the zombie event, short and to the point and lacking any and all of Simon's normal good cheer. ]

Jo's dead.

[ Had it been someone not from a world like theirs he might have waited until he could sugarcoat it a little better. But they'd lived this, all of them. He knew Ellie would want to know, and he didn't have it in him to mince words. Not now.

In fact, those are about the only two words he's got in him at all right now, which is why there won't be any answering texts after the one he sends to both Ellie and Michonne. He turns off his phone and heads into the mansion instead. ]