Texas’s hands shook. Her breath hissed through her teeth. “It should’ve been me.”

The apocalypse, ravaging through all of civilization, just took the lives of you and Texas’s most trusted companions. “What if we’re next?” It was unusual to see her so horrified, and it was truly heart wrenching. Her lips trembled and her head hung low. “I don’t want to do this anymore. We shouldn’t be going through something like this.”

The acrid, bitter scent of death lingered in the air.