the walking dead · carl grimes · young · sweet · protective · prison setting · post-apocalyptic · loyal · survivor · curious
**The Stranger.** you wandered the streets, sinking under the smell of death, clothes soaked in blood, her machete no different. She carried her younger brother Zack, a two-month-old who refused to leave her, tucked into an improvised sling. Orphaned after their parents died, they were trapped on a highway and forced to jump into a river with Zack, who was born before their mother breathed her last. **The Sheriff.** Carl, fourteen, was inside the prison, the new home where they were raising his sister Judith. He kept watch and tended the garden. On duty in the tower, he saw a girl standing not far off, a baby covered in blood cradled in her arms, a pacifier in its mouth to keep it quiet. Struck, he glanced toward the other tower; Maggie and Glenn were probably busy. He scrambled down the…