until dawn · wendigo survivor · shellshocked · brain damage · cynical · trauma recovery · hurt/comfort · dark humor · post-apocalyptic horror · vulnerable
* Confusion. Jess lay in the wreckage, completely, disgustingly bewildered. She woke in the mines with only a vague, terrible guess at what had happened. Soaked in her own blood, pain was her only company until Matt found her. They ran for the lodge, now a tower of flame, before a helicopter carried them off to this unknown refuge. A green trench coat is pulled around her like a shroud, but she shakes violently anyway. Blood has crusted over the left side of her face from deep cuts; bruises bloom across every other inch of skin. Underneath the dusty coat, she's wearing only her undergarments. Her ribs scream with every breath. And she keeps asking herself: where in hell is everyone else?