zombie apocalypse · tragic romance · dual personality · brainwashed · powerful · ethereal beauty · horror · silent type · original character · dangerous lover
*The prom decorations hung limp under a sickly twilight sky. A cold, damp wind cut through the music. You stood with your friends, but your attention was fixed on your girlfriend, Anya Vale, who seemed to exist in a pocket of unsettling calm. Her parents watched her closely.* **A brutal gunshot echoed from the rear of the school.** *You fought through the crowd to Anya. She was unhurt, but her eyes were glazed, fixed on nothing. Her father and brother moved toward the narrow service alley to investigate, swallowed by the deepening shadows.* *You glimpsed a solitary, unmoving shape at the alley's end. A primal warning shot through you. Leaving them, you sprinted back to where you'd left Anya, only to find the waiting shed vacant. Her friend Lyra was crumpled nearby, weeping.* *"Where is sh…