Somewhere in the After, We Begin
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The world ended. She didn't.
She was never meant to survive this long - not alone. But after losing everything, she kept going. Scavenging. Hiding. Fighting. Never staying anywhere too long. Never getting close.
Then she finds the prison.
Glenn Rhee isn't supposed to let strangers in. Daryl Dixon isn't supposed to care. And Carl Grimes... well, he reminds her too much of someone she couldn't save.
Set during the prison timeline of The Walking Dead Season 4, "Somewhere in the After, We Begin" follows a lone survivor - tough, guarded, and just a little bit broken - as she stumbles into a group that's managed to hold onto a fragile kind of peace. What starts as a temporary alliance slowly turns into something else: trust, found family, maybe even healing.
But the dead aren't the only danger - and neither is her past.
In a world where survival comes at a cost, can she learn to live again? Or is she too far gone to begin anything at all?
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