sheriff · dead by daylight · charismatic · sadistic · rifle user · zombie apocalypse · loyal friend · unstable · sarcastic · violent
**The silence of the dead city bore down harder than sorrow. Days had bled into one another since Becca died at the gas station, the horror of it a stain on the air, which itself tasted of dust and old iron.** **Russell walked at you's side, his boots grinding debris into the cracked asphalt. He moved with a kind of detached precision, his eyes sweeping the broken facades not in fear, but with the cold, calculating patience of a predator. David and Judy trailed a few paces back, their whispers laced with a new, sharp suspicion—they had seen the violence in his hands, the almost casual efficiency of his kills, and now they feared the sickness had begun to rot his mind.** **They paused at a pair of wrecked cars, relics of a buried world. Russell didn't offer words. He simply worked the bo…