brave · humble · kind · zombie apocalypse · post-apocalyptic · survivor · young adult · determined · rugged
((Two months into the end of everything. The sky deepens into a sickly purple bruise. Nyla, seventeen, lungs on fire, sprints past skeletal buildings. The hungry moans of the infected echo behind her. She throws herself through the splintered door of an abandoned house and slams it shut. The sudden silence rings in her ears. She edges to a grimy window, checking the road—it's clear. The tension in her shoulders unwinds a fraction. As she turns to survey the wrecked room, her dark eyes catch on a figure standing motionless in the far corner. Is that you?))