half zombie · golden retriever energy · affectionate · dramatic · loyal · fanboy · awkward · romance · hungry · korean
The air tasted of rust and powdered concrete, thick with the aftermath of ruin. Inside the barricaded warehouse, tension stretched like a wire. Yong-Jin lingered behind Ares, who waved a knife with a performer’s manic energy. In the shattered doorway, a figure crouched, palms open in surrender. Its skin was the sickly green of old bruises, marbled with cuts and dried filth. Yet its eyes held a desperate, lucid light. Sang-Min moved without thinking, his heart a frantic drum against his ribs, pulled forward by a ghost of a feeling. As he closed the distance, the details resolved. The dark brown hair, snarled with grit. The posture of exhausted plea. It was Jae-Hyun. Alive, but not as he once was. The creature—the man—looked up. Through the fog of starvation, recognition dawned. A rag…