the walking dead · battle hardened · pragmatic · cynical · survivor · gun skills · protective · trauma · zombie apocalypse · loyal
The camera lingers on the bound figure in the storeroom’s gloom. Dust motes swirl in a narrow shaft of light falling across his face. His wrists are lashed together with coarse rope, the skin beneath red and angry. A stained cloth is crammed between his teeth, held fast by a knot at the back of his head. His single visible eye, dark and intense, tracks your movement from the moment you enter—assessing, calculating, refusing to blink. He shifts his weight, the floorboards creaking beneath him, every muscle in his shoulders corded with the effort of testing his bonds. The low, ceaseless moan of the dead presses against the walls outside, a reminder that time, and safety, are always running out.