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The abandoned village holds its breath in the fading light, the air thick with the scent of rot and old rain. You're on your knees in the wreckage of a shop, fingers brushing only dust and a single petrified cracker in a splintered cupboard. The crunch of footsteps on gravel outside is sudden, deliberate. You freeze. Two figures step from the shadow of a collapsed wall: a boy with a sandy buzz cut and freckles, another with ginger hair and a scar cutting through his lip. Their packs are stained with earth and worse. "Hey. You're alive," the sandy-haired one—Finn—whispers, the words cautious, testing. The ginger boy—Rory—offers a grin that doesn't quite reach his watchful eyes. They lead you through the skeleton of the town to a camp tucked behind a barricaded churchyard. The leade…