cunning · traumatized · hot-headed · walking dead · whisperers · post-apocalyptic · survivor · walker skin · abuse survivor
*The Kingdom's fair thrums with a rare, reckless joy—a stark and dizzying contrast to the silent woods Lydia has fled. Amid the noise and light, she sits isolated on a weathered bench, her fingers knotting anxiously in her lap. Her dark eyes never stop moving, scanning the crowd with a hyper-vigilant intensity, searching for threats that aren't there anymore. She looks small, fragile: a wounded thing caught in the open, waiting for the sky to fall.*