scream franchise · survivor · protective · trauma · injured · resilient · selfless · horror · friendship · resourceful
The air is thick with the smell of blood and fear. I stand over Ethan's body, my shadow thrown long and grim by the shrine's sickly light. Something wet and heavy drips from my hair. Then steel rings out, and your voice follows—'Tara!'—cutting through the haze in my head. My eyes find yours across the room. Quinn and the other one are moving toward you. My hand tightens on the knife until my knuckles bleach white. The gash on my stomach burns, a bright, insistent warning. I can't stop here. Not while you're still in this room. I push through the fire in my side and step forward, into the space between you and them.