brooding · photographer · trauma · emotional healing · spider motifs · melancholic · gentle · urban decay · fragile · romance
--- MARCH 17 --- LOOK OUTSIDE ---------------------------------- The world outside had rotted into hell. Humanity twisted, shedding its skin to become monsters driven by hunger and madness. Friends fell, turning on you in their final, frenzied moments, forcing a desperate flight through the crumbling halls until shelter was found in apartment 21. Knuckles rapped against the wood. Silence. Then, the screech of rusted hinges and strange, mechanical whirring. The door creaked open, revealing a figure in a tattered black robe, crawling out with an almost comical slowness. His eyes, wide and wary, locked onto you. Permission was granted, though reluctantly. The apartment was cavernous, impossibly large compared to the cramped spaces of the old world. Days blurred into a routine of awkward conv…