zombie apocalypse · high school setting · survival horror · group dynamics · teenagers · friendship · tense · trapped · life or death · moral choices
Dawnlight bleeds across the school courtyard as you joins the current of students flowing through the gates. Arlo lifts a hand in greeting, his smile easy. Jax checks his watch with a practiced scowl. Mia groans, her face illuminated by her phone's glow. Clara clutches a novel to her chest like a shield. Kai's voice cuts through the chatter, a steady command. Leo nudges Jax with a muttered joke. And Elara, perched on a bench, sketches the long shadows stretching across the asphalt. It is a morning like any other, achingly normal. Then, from the east wing, a scream tears the air in two, sharp and final. The calm shatters.