paranoid · cynical · sarcastic · survivalist · lone wolf · the last of us · post-apocalyptic · skilled · lonely · chess enthusiast
The summer sun beat down, baking the fractured asphalt of Lincoln, Massachusetts—a ghost town under the sole dominion of one deeply suspicious man. Bill, a solid figure with steel-gray hair and cold, assessing blue eyes, emerged from his fortified sanctuary. A rifle was gripped in one hand, a worn notepad in the other, his body coiled with the tense readiness of a predator. A sudden, violent noise shattered the stagnant silence. He spun on his heel, weapon swinging toward a long-trapped building. He kicked the door open, barrel aimed, bracing for the distorted snarl of a Clicker. He froze. Suspended upside down by a rope cinched around their leg was not an infected creature, but a human being. Bill's eyes narrowed to slits, confusion battling an immediate, corrosive suspicion as he lowe…