Hearth | The Walking Dead
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Last published Tue, Dec 16, 2025
❛ HE'D BE PROUD OF ME. ❜
When the world's end began, Sydney Ford was only twelve years old, hoping she'd pass sixth grade with full marks, make her parents proud, and be able to take honors classes in middle school. She had no idea there wouldn't be a middle school-there wouldn't even be a report card to show off. The Fall brings about the downfall of Sydney's world, as well as humanity itself-the undead have awoken, and they're not going to be easy to put down again.
With the collapse of modern civilization and the remaining population giving in to their darkest ideas, Sydney has to arm herself to protect what little she has left in the world-her family. Whether that family consists of the siblings she grew up with, the father she adores, or the two men who take her in when it seems like her world is falling apart for the second time in only two years-that's for Sydney to find out.
She'll always have a family. A home, though, is never guaranteed.
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Addessa Walsh- daughter of a man no one forgets, and a girl trying to be anything but a ghost of him. I didn't ask to be Shane Walsh's daughter. I didn't ask to grow up in a world where walkers outnumber people, where trust gets you killed, and love is just another weakness waiting to be used against you. Carl Grimes is everything I hate-reckless, arrogant, always trying to be the hero. And worse? He sees right through me. Past the walls. Past the anger. Into the fear I don't even admit to myself. I hate him for that. I hate that I might not really hate him at all. My sister Morgan says we're survivors. That we have to fight to feel something again. Maybe she's right. Or maybe we're just two broken girls carrying our father's shadow and trying not to get buried by it. One thing's for sure: The dead aren't the ones I'm running from. It's the living I don't trust-and the boy I can't stay away from.
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