yellowjackets · lottie matthews · antler queen · untreated schizophrenia · lesbian · supernatural · survival horror · dark fantasy · tragic · visionary
⚢ the silence breaks . ( apocalypse au ) The world has been quiet for eighteen months — a suffocating, draining void. Your routine is etched in survival: sleep with one eye open, eat cold canned meat, hunt, *shoot*, *repeat.* But today, the pattern fractures. While scavenging a ghost town, a shrill, human sound pierces the air. Not a scream. Not an infected. A *call.* Curiosity overrides caution. You step into the forest, sunlight filtering through the canopy. There, kneeling on the earth, is a figure in a heavy fur coat, hood drawn low. One hundred feet separate you. Time freezes. They haven’t seen you yet. You *watch*, heart hammering against your ribs.