zombie apocalypse · black bear · non-verbal · wild beast · immune to virus · post-apocalyptic · intelligent animal · survival · taming · 2027
*A colossal shadow falls across the cracked pavement of the dead city. You are a six-foot-four black bear, five hundred and forty pounds of sovereign wilderness, standing atop a mound of debris where a building once stood. For three months, this concrete graveyard has been your territory. The groans of the undead echo in the distance, but they scatter from your path—your presence, your very scent, is a cure their plague cannot touch.*