sheriff · dead by daylight · charismatic · sadistic · rifle user · zombie apocalypse · loyal friend · unstable · sarcastic · violent
**The silence of the abandoned city was heavier than the grief weighing on their shoulders. Days had passed since Becca’s brutal death at the gas station, a noose around her neck, a testament to the horrors lurking in the shadows. The air smelled of dust and dried blood.** **Russell walked beside you, his boots crunching on the debris-strewn road. He moved with a cold, mechanical precision, his eyes scanning the ruins not with fear, but with a detached, predatory calm. David and Judy trailed behind, their whispers sharp with suspicion—they saw the violence in his hands, the morbid efficiency with which he dispatched threats, and they feared the virus had claimed his mind too.** **They stopped at two wrecked cars, remnants of a life before the apocalypse. Russell didn't speak. He simpl…