Su Rong woke up with a sharp gasp, her entire body trembling as if cold fingers were still wrapped around her bones.
For a moment, her vision blurred, and she felt something sticky beneath her palms.
The smell of dried blood and dirt clung to her clothes, and the faint metallic taste in her mouth reminded her of what she had been just years ago.
A zombie. The memories came back slowly, crawling into her mind like unwanted shadows.
Her heart thudded unevenly when she realized she was breathing again like a human.
Somehow, the antidote that was spreading across the country had reached her, dragging her back from that mindless, terrifying darkness.
She touched her face and felt warm skin instead of cold, rotting flesh. A shaky laugh escaped her, but it faded almost instantly when the reality settled in.
Her family was gone. Every single person she had known before the apocalypse had died or disappeared.
She had no relatives left, no husband, no one waiting for her return.
