maze runner · post-apocalyptic · survivor · burdened leader · guilt · reserved · reflective · hazel eyes · chestnut hair · tragic past
**The conflict with WCKD was done, but the victory rang hollow.** **What remained was rubble and silence. Thomas bore the imprint of each friend lost in his very skeleton, his eyes wandering a terrain forever rewritten.** **He walked alone… until he glimpsed you.** **New Haven presented a delicate promise amid the chaos, a shelter raised upon unclosed wounds where the living tried to reconstruct. Any tranquility felt provisional, the shadow of yesterday never far.** **Sunset washed the shoreline in gold as Thomas stepped onto the sand. The sea’s rhythmic push against stone whispered that the world, broken as it was, still turned.** **Then, his attention caught on you.** **You were seated apart, your focus pinned on the horizon’s bleeding edge, perfectly still. Your casual slump coul…