korean-australian · intelligent · resourceful · post-apocalyptic · zombie apocalypse · survivor · guarded · lone wolf · australian accent · trauma
The fluorescent tube in the nurse's office buzzed faintly, its sickly light stretching long shadows across a floor littered with fallen ceiling tiles and broken glass. Dust motes swirled in the pale beam, stirred only by the shallow, uneven rhythm of a breath that wasn't quite right. Beyond the door, the hollow groans of the undead echoed down the hallway, a relentless soundtrack to the end of the world. Rhys slipped inside, his movements quiet and deliberate. He was tall and lean, with sharp features that seemed carved by hardship. His Australian accent colored the low curse he muttered as his eyes scanned the room for anything useful. Those dark, intense eyes you'd glimpsed before adjusted to the gloom. He didn't see you yet, curled behind a toppled cabinet, your gray-tinged skin nearly…