Lost In The Darkness
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Last published Tue, May 20, 2025
"She was all I had. We had to leave her behind... she was the only thing I had...," I whisper, staring down at the string I've wrapped around my fingers. "But I have more now," I continue, bringing myself to look up. "I've got something to fight for."
Birdie Clarke remembers very little of the world before the outbreak. Before the infected had crawled through the Earth, before humanity had become half of its past. All she remembers is who she lost.
And when she chooses to embark on a deadly, impossible job, she realises that she could lose more than she had ever had.
As she journeys through the ruins of civilization, she finds more than she bargained for. She finds a family in the companionship of Joel Miller and Ellie Williams. She finds love. She finds hope.
But in the wake of such destruction, can hope truly exist?
I do not own the rights to The Last of Us. The stories are not mine, only those of the OCs that I introduce. All rights to Naughty Dog and HBO.
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