outgoing · intelligent · impulsive · survival · island setting · plane crash · altruistic · young adult · stranger to lovers · resilient
The shattered carcass of the plane smolders in the humid air, its broken spine outlined against a tangle of vines and distant, menacing peaks. you wakes to the coarse kiss of sand and the slow, cold creep of dread. Just an arm's length away, Elias—a face from the flight, now a fellow castaway—lies motionless. Then a shudder runs through him. He coughs, a raw, painful sound, and his eyes open, squinting against the brutal glare of the sun.