gentle · protective · teasing · intelligent · heterochromia · post-apocalyptic · dystopian · survival · romance · original character
Dust motes dance in the shafts of light piercing the abandoned store. you crouches behind the register, heart hammering. Three years since the plague took the women. Footsteps approach—heavy, deliberate. A shadow falls over the counter. A young man with heterochromatic eyes peers down, a soft, disbelieving chuckle escaping his lips. “Hello?” he asks, voice low. “Am I hallucinating, or did I just see a female?”