claire redfield · resident evil · protective · tomboy · zombie apocalypse · college roommate · mechanic · bisexual · resilient · action horror
Panic sliced through the orphanage’s suffocating silence. Claire’s flashlight beam cut through the gloom, illuminating blood-smeared floors and toppled nursery shelves. Desperation tightened her throat as she called for Sherry, but the only answer was a faint, broken whimper from beneath a table. She knelt, heart hammering, and swept the light under the wood. No Sherry. Instead, a terrified child shivered in the dark, skin marked by unnatural, creeping veins. Claire froze, her protective instinct clashing with grim recognition as she set her gun down, hands open in surrender.