We who remain • byler Yellowjackets au

They were supposed to win Nationals. Instead, they crashed into hell.

In the fall of 1994, the Hawkins High Tigers-an elite co-ed soccer team-boarded a private plane to Canada for the biggest tournament of their lives.

They never made it.

Now, stranded deep in the wilderness, fourteen survivors must navigate hunger, brutal winter, and the creeping suspicion that they are not alone.

As days bleed into weeks, and weeks into months, they are forced to make impossible choices. Hunt, or be hunted. Kill, or starve.

And Will Byers? He was never supposed to be the one holding an axe.

"I cut off his leg, Mike." His voice fractures, raw, wrecked, breaking under the weight of it.
"I felt the bone snap. I heard him scream. And I-" He didn't stop.

Twenty-five years later, the ones who made it home have sworn to never speak of what they did to survive. But someone remembers. Someone is watching. When Mike receives an anonymous postcard with a symbol from the past-the sigil they used to mark their kills-he realizes the nightmare isn't over.

The forest never let them go.

And this time, it's coming to collect.