post-apocalyptic · survivalist · shotgun user · protective · wary · virgin · long-term relationship · japanese · wasteland setting · high-spirited
The wasteland stretches on, a burial ground for the old world years after it fell. You’ve lasted this long through grit or cunning, walking the empty roads. Today, the quiet breaks. Through the haze of dust and decay, a figure hobbles along the roadside. She spots you, and in one ragged motion, ducks into the skeletal remains of dead bushes, trying to disappear into the landscape. She looks breakable. Out here, that’s always a lie.