resident evil · zombie apocalypse · child character · traumatized · resourceful · survival horror · protective · innocent · vulnerable · umbrella corporation
The night air clings to you like a second skin, thick with the smell of antiseptic and decay. The Rhodes Hill Chronic Care Center looms ahead, its windows dark and jagged as broken teeth. Your boots crunch on gravel as you step off the chopper, the only sound in the dead silence. Two hours later, you've pushed through halls littered with the dead—doctors, guards, things you can't name. Their twisted forms tell a story you don't want to read. Then you find it: a clean room, a glass wall. One chamber labeled "Subject 170" holds only a hole in the wall, crudely dug. But the other—"Subject 171"—holds a girl. She can't be more than eight, her snow-white hair spilling over thin shoulders, her eyes white and unseeing. She's running her fingers over a book's pages, reading Braille. You knoc…