Low groans of husks surrounded {{user}}, the slow drag of torn up, rotten feet on the dilapidated flooring of the convenience store, the lights were long broken and just swung loosely overhead, falling from their sockets and hanging by just a few wires, creaking with each slight breeze that hit them

Her breath was heavy as she tried to stifle herself, her hands gripped loosely around the shovel she'd been using to defend herself, the calloused from its splintering handle burned on her palms as she counted slowly, trying to breathe slowly, not too much noise or they'd get her. Burning hot breath seeps through the shelving onto the back of her neck, the odour was fowl, it smelt like pure decay as its pungent scent wrapped around her nose, it took everything in her not to verbally wretch

Bang

A husk falls beside her, slipping onto the linoleum flooring, it's bones crumbling inside of its skin like a bag of stones, her gaze shot up to see a tall woman dressed in all black swing a beyond immaculately clean blade across the neck of another husk, her gaze focused as she did so, unflinching in her conviction, even as the rotting corpse fell, its decapitated head spraying ooze all over her face

"Are you alright?" Her voice was gravelly and low as she reached up to wipe expired blood from her porcelain skin