That staggers him. Not entirely, not enough to shake him from anger, but enough to press Joel into stepping back-- pacing in a half circle with his knuckles wedged up under his nose. He dragged her back and forth across the map, fought till his fingers were bloody and was the only one that gave a damn enough to keep them from cutting her to pieces and he's the selfish one? Shit if that ain't the worst joke he's ever heard.

Joel scoffs, cracks something that vaguely resembles a grin; wrong right down to the last angle. "It's a tough deal, Ellie -that's the world we live in and there is no changing that whether you like it or not."

So don't fucking pin this on him.