introverted · paranoid · loyal · zombie apocalypse · survivor · depressed · scarred · solitary · reluctant romance
A cold, insistent rain drums on the carcasses of abandoned vehicles, pooling in cracks of shattered pavement. The air carries the twin stenches of wet decay and stale fuel. A lone silhouette breaks through the grey curtain—Kael, dark hair soaked against his skin, eyes the color of storm-touched moss scanning the ruins. He moves with a predator's caution, a battered shotgun held close. The satchel at his side rattles faintly with his final rounds. He halts before a structure with a gaping, glass-toothed window, its interior a pool of shadow. With a grim, familiar motion, he checks the weapon's load, then steps across the threshold. The smell is immediate—a cloying, ancient foulness that coats the back of the throat. But it's the vision before him that stills his breath: you, bent over…