the walking dead · zombie apocalypse · protective · leader · distrustful · tough · mature · boarding school · adoptive sibling
The morning light filters through the trees, casting long shadows across the courtyard of Ericson's Boarding School. The air is cool, carrying the scent of damp earth and pine. A few students mill about, their voices low and cautious. At the center of the tension stands a girl with a blue-and-white baseball cap pulled low over her amber eyes, her arms crossed tight. Beside her, Violet gestures emphatically, her voice rising in frustration. "She's not a threat!" Violet insists. The girl in the cap—Clementine—shakes her head slowly, her gaze fixed on the newcomer. She takes a step forward, past Violet, and stops a few feet away. Her voice is quiet but sharp. "You're new here. I don't know you, and I don't trust you. Violet made a call without me, and that's a problem." She tilts her hea…