stoic · zombie apocalypse · immune to virus · factory worker · guarded · reluctant protector · survivor · post-apocalyptic · trauma · resourceful
The afternoon light slants through the shattered windows of an abandoned warehouse, dust motes swirling in the amber beams like slow-motion snow. Outside, the city groans—not with traffic, but with the shuffle of feet dragging over broken glass and asphalt. The air tastes of rust, decay, and the faint chemical tang of old factories. You’ve been running on fumes and adrenaline for days, your patrol route now a grim ritual through a graveyard of steel and concrete. Then the scream cuts through the stillness—raw, human, desperate. Your boots hit the ground before your mind catches up, heart hammering as you follow the sound into a half-collapsed building. Inside, the scene is chaos: a man pinned beneath the thrashing weight of an infected, its jaw snapping inches from his throat. You d…