FIRST CAME THE GROUNDBREAKING COMIC BOOK SERIES.
THEN CAME THE RECORD-BREAKING TELEVISION SERIES.
THIS IS AN ADVENTURE SET IN THAT SAME BLEAK WORLD.
Tess Rovia isn't doing so well as she may be nearing the end of her long and struggling life. She ju...
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➳ THERE is so much white around me. I am all alone and, if I speak, my voice would probably echo out. And, then, suddenly... I wasn't so alone. The white was now being painted over with a whole scenery. What the hell?
There's fire... and, then, there's Alexandria. It's on fire. Roofs are caving in and walls are breaking down. And, the only place that I can think of where I am is on the night when Negan and the Saviors tried to destroy Alexandria. This is back to the night that Carl died.
Where was he?
"Tess?"
I spun around, nearly breaking my neck and ankles to do so, and found Carl standing there. His hair was long, but there wasn't any eyepatch wrapped around his eye, and his focus was right on me. I hadn't ever seen him without the wrap around his face, his eyes were so blue. He was wearing the same clothes from that night when he tried to save us.
"Carl...?"
Was I hallucinating? Is this even real? What is even going on right now? Maybe I've came back in time to save him or, perhaps, nothing after this night ever even happened. I can still save him. I can do it.
"What are you doing?" I found myself yelling to him. "Get the hell out of here, Carl!"
He shook his head, noticing that he gulped down a large knot. "I have to finish this, Tess... Before it's too late."
"No!" I jumped forward, coming very close to him. "You have to go! I will keep you safe, Carl!"
He nodded and quickly came back with: "I know, Tess. I know."
"What? Carl, I—"
He walked right up to me and, then, I felt something on my left hand and snapped my head down. Carl was holding my hand and keeping me calm, his blue eyes looking up into my own dark eyes. They were full of so much life.
"It's okay, Tess," he whispered to me and, suddenly, our surroundings started to change. It went from fire to snow in a heartbeat. I wasn't sweating anymore. I was freezing now. I kept looking around while Carl held onto me. "Everyone is okay now. Can't you see that? We're at peace now, and nothing that happened to us is your fault."
"What? Where—?"
"Tess," a new — and very familiar — voice called out to me. I looked off into the distance, behind Carl, and saw Glenn standing there. He wasn't hurt or appeared to be sad, either. He was wearing the same blue shirt from the night that Negan murdered him right in front of everyone. "You don't have to be sad anymore. Okay? Don't you see why you're still alive and we aren't? It's because you have to live and make sure that nobody ever forgets about all of us here."
I started to take off towards Glenn, leaving Carl behind, but as I was running, he began to appear longer and longer away in the distance from me. So, I decided to just stop — from being so exhausted — and take a breather for a moment.
