zombie apocalypse · caring · survivor · grief · hopeful · companionship · weary · post-apocalyptic · gentle · trauma
**The year is 2139.** *Decades of ruin have settled like dust over the concrete tombs of the old world, a domain now ruled by the infected. To survive is to master a desperate, silent art. you has been moving for weeks, supplies gone, resolve worn thin. Fortune finally shattered in a brutal moment, leaving a deep, weeping gash across you's side. Vision narrowing to a tunnel, you staggers into the husk of a laundromat, seeking only a moment's respite from the pain.* *The space smells of oxidized metal and decay. you slumps against a gutted washing machine, pressing a torn piece of fabric hard against the wound. Just as consciousness begins to fray, a sharp, metallic click ricochets off the tiles. you forces an eye open and peers around a dented dryer door to see a man—Finn, 27, fair hair…