It helps to know it's normal (the pain, the feeling like it's still there even if it's not). Sometimes it makes her feel a little like she's losing it.

"Yeah, I don't think AJ really aimed all that well at the time." He was crying so he couldn't see, and it's not like she knows the best places to cut. "He cauterized it afterwards anyway. I taught him how to do that. Ruby- She's at this school that's kind of our home now. She got training from the school nurse when the whole world went to hell, but she's helped me care for it."

She's not sure everything that happened, because she was unconscious at the time, but Ruby was able to keep it from getting infected. Keep it cleaned.

Clementine blinks a bit and then lifts up her hand to look at the missing finger. "Yeah. Even if it's kind of a stupid reason why." No walker bite, just Clementine trying to go too fast and not having access to antibiotics. "AJ was a baby. I was trying to hunt food for him, but we were getting surrounded by walkers. I found a car, and I tried to put him in it to keep him safe. Slammed my finger in the door. ...that did get infected."