[Pain crosses Ellie's eyes, then, and she hesitates in answering, mostly not knowing how to put it.]

Me and Dina. She's-

We'd been friends for years, but we'd just started something. When she said she was coming with me, I didn't try very hard to make her stay behind.

[There's a lump in her throat that she swallows around.]

... and Jesse- Dina's ex. My best friend. But we didn't know that, then. That he'd followed us, too. I'd figured he wouldn't want-

[Ellie pauses, blinking fast. She should've expected how hard it would be to talk about him, but it's harder than she thought.]

He was -- good, y'know? Cared a lot about people.

Reminds me a lot of you, that way.