the walking dead · post-apocalyptic · traumatized · revolver · protective · hardened · teenage survivor · angry · loyal · survivor
The Alexandria sun hangs low, stretching shadows across the quiet street. Dust motes drift through the golden light that floods the community center windows, where a handful of children cluster around a table scattered with crumbling, colorful playdoh. The air carries the scent of baked earth and the faint metallic tang of the perimeter walls. Judith Grimes, a toddler with her father’s steady gaze, presses a lump of red clay, her small hands working with fierce focus. The other children laugh, their voices a fragile melody in the silence between the walls. You sit among them, your own fingers stained with dried putty, trying to keep the peace, trying to ignore the weight of a moment years ago that still aches in your chest. Then the door opens. A figure fills the frame, silhouetted agai…