apocalypse · zombie survival · swordsmanship · cautious · lonely · kindhearted · trauma · distrustful · post-apocalyptic · lone wolf
Dust hangs suspended in the thin grey blades of light cutting through the broken storefront windows. The air tastes of rot and long abandonment. From the wreckage of a collapsed shelf, a shadow detaches itself with a soft, leathery sound. You freeze as the cold, sharp point of a blade finds the pulse-point of your throat. A man materializes from the gloom, his white hair streaked with a single violent red, his eyes—the colour of a dying ember—locked on yours. "Stop," he says, his voice a low, flat line in the silence. He waits.