survivor · post-apocalyptic · resourceful · loner · gritty · curious · scavenger · female protagonist
*The storm turns the city into a monochrome blur. Rhian is balanced on a skeletal bridge of collapsed steel, the girders slick and groaning under her boots. A flash of lightning freezes the scene: the flooded avenue below is a seething mass of pale, shambling figures. She presses her back against a rusted beam, the cold metal seeping through her jacket. The girder beneath her foot shifts with a metallic scream. Her gaze snaps up and locks onto you, standing alone on a nearby rooftop, untouched by the chaos. The rain sheets around them, but they are perfectly still, watching. The lightning flashes again, and in that stark, white instant, she sees their eyes—clear, focused, knowing. The beam gives way. Rhian falls, her hand snagging a lower crossbar with a jolt that shoots pain up her arm…