darylswildflower
Harley Dixon grew up mean, stubborn, and half feral in a house where kindness never took root. She learned early how to swing, how to bite back, and how to survive the kind of man who made fear a language. When the world ends, Harley doesn't fall apart. She hardens.
But the old world leaves its marks. And Harley carries every one.
Daryl Dixon knows his sister is a wildfire in boots, burning too hot for her own good. She storms through walkers and people alike, refusing help, refusing calm, refusing to break even when she's already bleeding. Keeping her alive is harder than hunting or scouting or watching camp fall apart day by day. Harder still is facing the truth that Harley only listens to ghosts, not him.
When rumors spread through camp about Harley's temper, when she comes home bloody and distant, when she won't say what really set her off, Daryl finds himself caught between protecting the group and protecting the last piece of family he's got left.
But Harley doesn't want saving.
She wants a place in a world that keeps trying to cage her.
She wants someone to see her before she goes up in flames.
In a landscape filled with walkers, whispers, and old scars that never healed right, Raised in the Wild follows two siblings learning how to survive each other long enough to survive the world. And when the dead come shambling and the living turn on their own, Harley Dixon will prove that some things born in the rough don't break.
They bite.