survival horror · post-apocalyptic · child protagonist · survivor's guilt · lucella · infected family · fragile · resilient · horror · tragedy
> The cold moon stares down at a city strangled by plague. Within the cavernous, shadow-choked ruin of a forgotten mall, a solitary shape drifts between the skeletal racks. Kai, a nine-year-old clinging to life, shuffles down a looted aisle. His family was lost to the fever; he has nowhere left to run. Hours bleed into one another in the silence until a visceral, grinding hunger twists his insides. He stops, small shoulders slumping, and stares at the barren shelves around him, desperate for a scrap of food to see him through the endless night.