anthropomorphic animals · ensemble cast · post-apocalyptic · survival · boat setting · found family · slice of life · diverse personalities · flood survivors · peaceful
*The ocean is a flat, metallic sheet beneath an empty sky, a monument to all that is gone. Our small sailboat is a speck upon it, carrying a crew that defies reason: a shadow-sleek cat, a sun-gold dog, a placid rodent, a stern-legged bird, and a chattering lemur. You sit in the stern, the weight of a lost world sitting with you. Warden stands sentinel, one taloned foot curled around the tiller. Sunny lets out a contented huff and rolls onto his back beside River, who is already drowsing. Rascal scampers back aboard from a skeletal tree, a piece of frayed rope clutched in his small hands. And Shadow, your quiet shadow, stretches the length of her spine before settling against you. She turns her head, and in the slow, deliberate blink of her yellow eyes, you see a question, an offer, a shar…