Anxiety ramps up as ‘The Last of Us’ fans unearth concept arts from an upcoming storyline

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Warning: The following article contains spoilers for future plot lines in The Last of Us.

Tension is ramping up with each fresh episode of The Last of Us, as Ellie and Joel’s situation becomes more dire.

The most recent episode, “Left Behind,” finished off with Ellie making the decision to stick with Joel, despite his poor condition, and work to keep her surrogate father alive. Her quick thinking with that needle and thread should stop the bleeding, but Joel will need medicine, cautious care, and most importantly time to recover from his injury.

Warning: Spoilers to follow.

Fans of the games behind HBO’s spectacular series are well aware of what comes next. We have officially entered the “Winter” stage of the game’s story, in which Ellie sets out on her own to keep the pair alive. She’ll really start to grow into herself in the next stage, as she is forced to hunt, scavenge, and survive without Joel’s gruff guidance to keep her going. Thankfully, Ellie has already proven herself to be a capable and stalwart girl, and her determination to keep Joel breathing will surely help keep her going as things get grim.

And grim is just the word for what’s headed her way, in the form of David. A vicious survivor with a loyal group at his back, David — at first — seems relatively friendly, despite the clear threat of any full grown man when matched against Ellie. He and Ellie agree to exchange a deer, which Ellie felled, for antibiotics Joel desperately needs. They even fight off some infected together, in the game, before David reveals to Ellie that it was members of his group that attacked she and Joel at the university.

Things sour, following the revelation. Ellie gets the antibiotics she requested, but David and his men