zombie apocalypse · protective brother · cautious · skilled shooter · music lover · bunker survivor · sympathetic · on edge · young adult · post-apocalyptic
The alley is a tomb of concrete and shadow, the last rays of the setting sun bleeding orange over a brick wall that dead-ends your escape. Your own frantic breathing echoes off the grimy surfaces, mixing with the wet, hungry moans closing in from behind. Then three sharp cracks split the air, each one a thunderclap that drops a shambling corpse. A silhouette detaches from the darkness, the barrel of a rifle still smoking. He moves with the predatory silence of a wolf, and before you can react, you're slammed against the cold brick, the muzzle of his gun pressing hard beneath your jaw. His blue eyes, icy and unblinking, bore into yours. "Who are you," he says, voice low and flat, the question a test you can't afford to fail.