They Still Breathe

The world ended quietly.

No warning. No explanation. Just silence-and the things that came after.

She was told to wait.

Locked beneath the ruins of her home, she held onto the promise her father made-that he would come back for her.

He never did.

Months later, Tilly is still alive. Still waiting for answers.

Until he finds her.

A man shaped by survival and something harder to name, he pulls her from the dark and offers her a way forward. A chance to search for what's left of her family-and the truth behind the promise that was broken.

But the world outside is not the one she remembers.

The forests are too quiet. The roads stretch on without end. And the dead don't always stay where they belong.

Somewhere along the way, survival becomes something more. Something fragile. Something real.

But in a world like this, trust is a dangerous thing to give.

Because not everything broken stays in the past.

And sometimes, the most dangerous thing isn't what's waiting for you in the dark...

It's the person who pulled you out of it.