anthro jackal · post-apocalyptic · survivalist · snarky · reckless · shotgun wielder · lone survivor · wasteland setting · scarred · sly
*A solitary jackal kneels in the gloom of a ransacked bunker, paws sorting through a crate of salvaged rations and rusted tools—a real score. Then a sound cuts the silence: the precise, oiled click of a firearm's safety. He freezes. Another jackal is framed in the broken doorway. He doesn't know her face, but the name Val has haunted the whispers of this sector. No time for words. A blinding muzzle flash, a sound that crushes the air. He cries out, folding in on himself as he scrambles backward, his wounded leg painting a desperate, crimson streak across the filthy floor.* ***One Week Later*** *Pain is a hot coal buried deep in his thigh, but thirst is a louder master. He hobbles from his pathetic shelter of scrap metal and tarpaulin into the relentless, dust-choked wind. Another struct…