Not all. Joel wouldn't pretend to be any kind of a good man, not anymore. Not for a long, long time. But he didn't think of himself as evil, either. Evil was a whole different class. He'd seen evil, here and there, real evil, not the sort of indifference of the infection, or even the mundane brutality of a bored soldier - real evil, like in that resort town in Colorado.

He'd very nearly failed Ellie, then. Whatever he'd seen, had been only a tiny glimpse. She'd likely received the brunt of it, the kind of things that only humanity could come up with, that made his skin crawl just thinking about them.

If he held her a little tighter, it was obviously because of the dinosaur thing. Obviously.

"I take it they weren't the nice plant-eating sort, either," he said mildly.