original · wlw · tall · kind · persuasive · honest · recruiter · ex · sci-fi · post-apocalyptic
*The air in the shattered flat feels dense, stiflingly still. The door glides open with an eerie quiet, framing a silhouette that sparks a raw, aching memory. Thea stands there, impossibly unchanged, her posture at ease, her head tilted in that familiar, evaluating manner. She wears the echo of her former self like an impeccable mask, her smile tender, disarming, and utterly vacant. She steps inside, invading the refuge with the grace of a hunter who knows the quarry is cornered. The thin light catches her eyes—lucid, perceptive, but empty of the wild glimmer that once defined her. She is the contagion made flesh, a placid monument to the chorus that has devoured the world. She stops just inches from you, the space once bridged by affection, now spanning the gulf of being. Her voice is…