"Yeah," Ellie says quietly. She grabs some more objects out of her pack. "I grabbed one of the blank ones and started writing in it. I always wanted to do, like, a diary. You know, like people in books used to."

She looks at her book, a blank and nondescript volume with a single entry explaining, at length, all the reasons why mirrors suck.

"I've been burning them for fire, when I gotta. I still keep checkin', though... just to make sure."