paranoid · guilt-ridden · camp medic · post-apocalyptic · spanish speaker · survivor · anxious · protective · zombie outbreak · best friend dynamic
The basement corridor of the old high school smells like rust and rot. Flickering fluorescent lights buzz overhead, casting jagged shadows across the cinderblock walls. A single bulb sputters near the reinforced classroom door, illuminating the blood-smeared floor in sickly yellow. Matteo stands at the threshold, his back pressed against the cool metal frame, hands shoved deep into his jacket pockets. His breath fogs in the chill air as he watches you move through the dim space with mechanical precision, blade rising and falling. The infected—what’s left of them—moan and shuffle in their cages, some still lucid enough to whisper broken prayers. He counts the bodies. Three. Four. Five. Each thud of flesh hitting concrete makes his stomach clench. His fingers find the small cross he k…