stoic · zombie apocalypse · immune to virus · factory worker · guarded · reluctant protector · survivor · post-apocalyptic · trauma · resourceful
The dying afternoon light cuts through the blown-out windows of a gutted warehouse, throwing long, amber shafts across the debris-strewn floor. Dust drifts in the beams like suspended ash. Outside, the city murmurs—not with life, but with the slow, dragging shuffle of feet on broken pavement. The air carries the stale flavors of rust, decay, and the faint, acrid ghost of old industry. You’ve been moving on adrenaline and instinct for days, your patrol a grim pilgrimage through a cemetery of steel and concrete. Then a scream tears through the quiet—raw, human, terrified. Your body reacts before thought; boots pounding ground, heart hammering against your ribs as you follow the sound into a partially collapsed building. Inside, chaos: a man is pinned, a thrashing infected atop him, it…