At some point, survival becomes a habit. You stop asking why you are still putting one foot in front of another and you just do it. Ellie had passed that point a long time ago.



Did she have any regrets...? Yeah, she regretted having to cut her hair. Apart from that, she kind of enjoyed being alive too much to honestly say she had any regrets. Like Joel said all those years ago (long before she was ready to hear it): "You just find reasons to keep fighting."



Now she had to go. The secret to turning her immunity into a cure was out there somewhere, and she figured that, as no-one else was trying, she needed to find it.