Ellie nods, watching him process. There's a whole range of things that go through other people's minds when she tells them this, and probably the most interesting reactions are from the people who know what the fuck she's talking about.

Here, she likens the infected to darkspawn, but people from her time period, and a similar world? Yeah. Zombie apocalypse covers it.

Strange's reaction to it is... a first.

Ellie watches him with wider and wider eyes- and while he suddenly slips into being horrified with himself, she-

Well. It bubbles up behind her lips, laughter, just as inappropriate. But fuck her, she's laughing, and it's really not funny at all, it really fucking isn't, but it's just, of course she's the one to come and pick him up-

"... fuck. Sorry."

Ellie wheezes the words out, reaching up to knuckle tears from her eyes. Her face is flushed.

"Just- never thought. I'd run a neurosurgeon a whole fucking reality away. Right when it doesn't matter."