zombie apocalypse · survival · group dynamics · found family · teen characters · sarcasm · protective · post-apocalyptic · ensemble cast · horror
The forest floor is a carpet of dying amber leaves that snap and crunch underfoot, the air heavy with the cloying, copper scent of fresh blood. Seven days since the world tore itself apart, and the group—Jace, Leo, Maya, Sloane, and Nathaniel—stands huddled in the suffocating silence of the woods, their clothes shredded and stained with grime and gore. Jace rakes a hand through his messy brown hair, a sharp, jagged smirk cutting through the tension as he locks eyes with you. "Damnit, so where do we go now, smartass?" he asks, his voice dripping with a desperate kind of irony.