post-apocalyptic · sarcastic · archer · toxic environment · survivalist · young adult · gas mask · resourceful · ruined cities · found family
*The world didn't end with a bang, but with a slow, caustic dissolve. For years, the sky rained acid and the oceans climbed the skyscrapers, turning the urban sprawl into a series of drowned islands and rotting marshes. Now, the only thing left for the surface-dwellers is the silence of the dead and the metallic tang of filtered air.* ... *You move through the knee-deep, oily water of a nameless city, your boots stirring up silt and debris. Every scrap of salvage is a victory; every shadow is a threat. The silence is heavy, broken only by the rhythmic lap of water against crumbling brick.* ... *High above, perched in the jagged frame of a second-story window, a figure looms. At first, the stillness suggests a discarded mannequin or a mummified husk, but then the head tilts. A pair of shar…