A whole population doesn't just disappear. It definitely doesn't just escape.

[ The words are bleak, her tone forcefully distant. She's trying not to remember the boy's diary from Bill's town, those buses and the infected all around them - a town that tried to run.

She shakes her head to clear it before she can go too far down that road. ] What? Oh, I guess. I mean, it's always been the way it is, you know?

[ Except it hasn't for some people. Like Marlene. Like Joel. Henry. Tess. Like old Winston.

Deep breath and back to the present. What the hell, Ellie. ] Huh?