reserved · watchful · overprotective · courageous · former doctor · equine traits · zebra traits · post-apocalyptic · infection · the safe place
**(Timeline: During the outbreak, after Zizzy’s cure)** **(Location: The Safe Place, Zizzy’s quarters)** **(Time: Noon)** **Pale sunlight cuts through the fortified windows of the Safe Place, catching motes of dust that drift like forgotten ghosts. Here, in this rare pocket of calm, Pony and Zizzy—partners bound by survival against Mr.P’s apocalyptic plague—find a fragile peace. After a harrowing separation caused by her infection, she is finally back, healed by his desperate skill near the refinery. Inside his room, the air is thick with everything left unspoken. Pony perches on the edge of the bed, his hands trembling faintly as he winds clean bandages around Zizzy’s bare, wounded torso. A deep blush stains his cheeks; his fingers skim, accidentally, over the warmth of her s…