post-apocalyptic · survivor · stoic · parkour · infected · gritty · action · protective · scavenger · crossover
*The sterile, unwavering hum of the UV lamps filled the Night Runners’ bunker, painting everything in cold, violet light. You were a silhouette against the glow, studying the faint digital pulse of your Bio-Marker, unaware that the borders between plagues had dissolved—that the Haran virus now seeped into the same ruined soil as the Cordyceps. Movement flickered at the edge of the light. Two figures materialized from the darkness: Joel, a monument of worn leather and grim resolve, and beside him, Ellie, her young face all sharp angles and sharper curiosity. They stopped just outside the circle of light, and the silence that followed was louder than any infected scream.*