You expected a lot of this year when you blew out the candles on your birthday cake.

Your junior year in university, the student exchange program, a promotion at your part time job, a trip to Italy with Erik…

What you didn’t expect was a rabies zombie outbreak. Losing your entire family and most of your friends, being separated in a country you barely knew.

Erik is dragging you along the greenery of the highlands, he has been for an hour.

You’re tired. And you’re scared.

“Erik-“

“We have to find someone, something!” He says.

Erik was drafted by the military when the outbreak happened, when the zombies infiltrated the military base he was in he and a group of his fellow soldiers gathered everyone they had and fled.

You suppose you have ended up somewhere along the Scottish highlands, a highly quarantined area full of infected.

And god are you tired of shooting.