"And then they like shoved us onto this train - which, by the way, awesome way to travel - and we went out to the districts, and Howard was in the same district as me, right, and there was a lot of jewelery stores--"

Ellie, of course, was in the middle of filling Joel in on absolutely everything that had happened to her since the last time she'd seen him, not really pausing either for breath or to allow him to complain, because she was getting this all out, dammit, whether he wanted to talk about it or not. She was doing it in as hushed a voice as she could manage, of course, but the halls of the museum had a weird way of carrying sound sometimes.