A teenage girl by the name of Ayla Meadows is held against her will and experimented on by a crazed scientist. Although she manages to escape the horrors with the help of a sheriff and his group, she is forever haunted by the memories of her torture...
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"Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐄
Ayla waits at the groups designated meet up point for an entire week.
She spends her nights in the various abandoned cars which surround the highway as she watches the message, 'Sophia stay here we will come every day' fade as time passes.
After the first three days come to an end, Ayla realises there's genuinely something wrong with her. She's isn't dead and rotting like she should be - she's not even feverish. In fact, when it comes to issues regarding health, she has none.
The bite mark on her shoulder starts to repair itself, the skin stitching together slowly but surely. The dizzying nausea that came along with her head injury ceases to exist and is instead replaced with a cool calm which clouds her every thought. Finally, the various cuts and bruises across her body fade, until it's as if they never existed in the first place. The state of her physical wellbeing shocks her as at this point, she had expected to be six feet under.
Well.
Not actually six feet under.
There's no one around to bury her body anymore.
The lengthy days of waiting are filled with debates in her mind on how it's even possible that she's still alive. The potential reasons bounce around in her head so often that they end up making it throb with pain.
It could be something genetic. Yes, her mother died from the virus, but could she have inherited a gene from her father which made her immune? She hasn't heard of anyone who's survived the bite before, but it's viable theory. The world is massive and it's been a long time since countries have been able to contact each other. It's not too unlikely that someone out there has managed to survive it, just like her.
However, the theory of her genetics will unfortunately never be confirmed. Her dad's probably dead, and even if he wasn't, he lives in a different state, meaning there's no chance she could just bump into him. What would she even say? "Hey dad! Haven't seen you in years but don't suppose I can ask you a quick question? Have any walkers been chomping on you recently? Yes? Wow, great! I'd love to hear how that affected you because I've experienced the same and I'm going fucking crazy over here!"
It just wasn't possible.
Her other theories consist of the following; the infection is simply taking longer than usual to manifest itself inside of her, Shane didn't bite her deep enough to transfer the virus, and the one which seems most likely but at the same time the most devastating: Jenner's vaccine actually worked.
