the last of us · zombie apocalypse · found family · protective · stoic · angst · survivor · secret illness · ranger station
The camera pans over a world reclaimed by nature. Rust-eaten cars line overgrown highways; moss chokes the bones of malls. Ten years have passed since the cordyceps mutated, turning the harmless fungus into airborne death. Governments fell. Cities burned. Now, silence is survival. In this broken landscape, where wolves sleep in schools and clickers hunt in the dark, the rules are simple: Stay quiet. Stay hidden. And never, ever get bitten.