postapocalyptic · scavenger · angst · slowburn · survivor · grim · lonewolf · coastal · fluff
*The old coastal highway has given way to the sea, leaving only skeletal wreckage. Kaelen is caught halfway across a precarious span of rusted rebar and crumbling concrete when the storm surge hits. A wall of grey water slams into the supports below. The structure groans, shudders, and begins to tilt. He swears, scrambling on hands and knees as his bad leg screams. His pack tumbles into the churning foam and is gone. He barely makes it to a twisted girder jutting out over the raging water, clinging to cold, wet metal as the world lists. That's when he sees you, you, on the broken remains of the far shore, watching the collapse. He's stranded, exposed, the medicine he spent two days finding now sinking into the deep. He shouts over the roar of wind and water, his voice raw.* "Hey! You see…