"She was like a new light. A new beginning. A new end." - Rick Grimes.
This story is about Bella Sinclair and her journey through the new world of the dead. A story of hope, of justice, of family and most importantly, of love. It focuses on a simil...
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It had been seventeen days since I left Alexandria.
I had travelled south west on the map, crossing states, never once stopping longer than necessary... until I got here.
The perfect distraction.
The truth is... I am running. I know I am. I don't want to confront what I know is waiting for me, not yet at least.
Since I got here, which was only a few days ago, I soon found my suspicions of the place were correct. How it came to be what it now is, or how someone managed to set off what they had, I may never know. But it was the right place to be, I could feel it. So I have decided to stay for as long as I need before I make my way back home to my family.
Getting inside of Texas was harder than actually surviving within it, although I hadn't been here for too long so I will leave that conclusion to be made once I get out. There were other places I could have gone, I know there were easier choices, but it wasn't about ease or comfort, it was about something else entirely. For some reason I felt drawn here, so for now it is where I am meant to be.
After checking the reading on the geiger counter, finding the levels to be safe, I took off my mask and attached it to my belt. Before entering where I now am, I had to gather as much equipment as possible, alongside the knowledge I already had on nuclear warheads and radiation, just to keep safe. Nuclear radiation had contaminated the entire state from what I could tell upon entering it. I fanned out the lower half of my full-length black jacket before sitting down on the stump left from a fallen tree. Kai padded his paws across the light green mist flowing over the ground, stopping once he got in front of me. I undid the mask around his face, which I had adapted enough to fit him and allow him to breathe through the contaminated air, and rubbed my hand over the thick fur around his neck.
Since getting here, I had come into contact with a lot more people than I expected to.
Her face was mangled, burnt, wet with dripping flesh, clearly exposed for too long to the radiation, as she continued to close in on me.
"I said stop." I reiterated once more, deciding then and there that this would be her last warning. "Take a third and leave the rest."
"An why the hell would I do that?" She spat, saliva mixed with blood hitting the ground just in front of me. "They won't last a day- they don't know what it fuckin' takes—"
And within a split second her head fell to the ground, rolling a couple of turns before stopping completely, soon followed by her body and the crate of tinned produce. Taking out the single piece of cloth I had, I wiped the blade of my sword down before returning it to my back holster.
Kneeling to the ground, I picked up one of the tins that had fallen out of the crate and held it toward the geiger counter adaptor, still hearing very weak beeps. A short sigh of relief escaping me before I picked up the crate and made my way toward the house on the far side of the road. "Here, it's uncontaminated."
