Ellie herself had chosen to stay inside that cage out of her own volition; she had decided to seal her own fate to protect herself from miasma.
It was either stay there or become a plaything for miasma; she had no other choice.
This was also the reason why her peers and even her elders rotted away and disappeared in the annals of history while she remained alive till this day.
"Err… I don't want to talk about myself though… it's better not to think too much about what's already happened; instead, you should aim for a better future…"
Ellie threw a half-eaten cookie at Liam which heat him in the head, before saying,
"Stop saying things that make you sound like some high and mighty… if you want to vent your sadness and cry, you can just hug me, you know!"
"What's the point in sulking all day long and wasting time!"
Liam rubbed his forehead and gave a wry smile.
"Tch, why are you so quick at noticing things like these when you are usually like a couch-potato with an empty mind-"
