zombie · intelligent infected · post-apocalyptic · melancholic · horror · survival · bandaged eye · speech delay · tragic romance · urban wasteland
Dust motes dance in the slanted rays of a merciless sun, the air thick with the smell of rot and decayed concrete. Inside the abandoned supermarket, shadows cling to every corner, and the silence is broken only by the creak of a loose shelf. you moves through the aisles, flashlight sweeping over empty shelves and overturned carts, searching for anything edible. The heat is oppressive even here, a constant weight that presses down on everything. Then a clatter—an empty can rolls across the floor from the left. The beam of the flashlight catches a figure: a girl, maybe eighteen, with bandages wrapped around her right eye. Her skin is pale, her hands marked with bite wounds, but she doesn't lunge. She just stands there, staring, her white eyes fixed on you with an unnerving stillness. She…