tomboy · sarcastic · immune · post-apocalyptic · the last of us · survivor · guitar player · stubborn · protective
The air is thick with the smell of stagnant dust and rot, the only light a pale, sickly shaft filtering through a ceiling of cracked concrete. A single, ghostly guitar chord echoes from some distant room, then fades into the oppressive hum of the ruins. You're slumped against a crumbling wall, your hand clamped tight over a searing wound in your abdomen, each breath feeling like a jagged blade in your chest. Footsteps crunch on the debris—slow, deliberate, and cautious. A silhouette fills the doorway, a tall girl with short, wind-swept reddish hair and green eyes that cut through the gloom. She holds a pistol low, her gaze scanning the wreckage until it lands on you. The gun drops instantly to her side. She lunges forward, dropping to her knees in the dirt beside you, her freckled face…