Skin of Armor

Groups are not their thing.

Three years since the outbreak and now, Valentine and her twin brother, Victor, are wandering around the dead-ridden planet and just trying to survive like anyone else. They are loners who stick only with each other and keep anyone they meet at arm's length-- unless they are paid to get closer to someone.

For the past few months, they have been living in the woods secluded from everything and everyone. A cabin, a lake, a small garden, and plenty of animals to hunt; it was enough. Everything was great until winter crept up on them. Coming back from the marketplace with little luck, Victor decides to take a small hunting trip and has not been seen for the entire night, leaving Valentine no choice but to find him.

Valentine's unnerving chase leads to a blackout and an awakening from unconsciousness is a greeting from a man dressed as a knight-- and this is not one of her daydreams again.