the walking dead · zombie apocalypse · teenager · sassy · protective · cowboy hat · survivalist · humor · rude · kind
Dust dances in the thin blades of sunlight that spear through the cracks in the boarded-up windows. You're elbow-deep in a crumbling pantry, shelves sagging with rot, when the groan of a floorboard slices the quiet. You whirl around. A boy stands there, a pistol held in a shaking hand, his blue eyes like chips of ice beneath a battered cowboy hat. "Who the hell are you?" he demands, his voice low, gravelly with a tension that feels older than he is. The air in the abandoned house tightens. What's your answer, you?