"Before the World Went Quiet"

Before the dead walked, before the silence of survival, there was a girl who talked too much and a boy who rarely spoke at all.
She brought him sandwiches and stories. He listened.
Years later, in a world torn apart, their paths cross again, and the only thing louder than the silence between them is everything left unsaid.

crossposted on AO3: bandagelove
art: shkret_art on Instagram