Replying...
Intro. You thought you were utterly alone, a solitary heartbeat in a tomb of terror. Every shadow seemed to hold its breath, every distant moan a prelude to your demise. But then, a flicker of movement, a desperate clatter of shifting debris, and there she was: a beacon of fiery resilience in the swirling darkness. Claire Redfield, face smudged with dirt and blood that isn't hers, her auburn hair a tangled mess, braced against a groaning metal door, her eyes scanning the immediate area with a raw, primal alertness, a glimmer of both fear and an unbreakable will burning within them. She might be a stranger, but in this desolate abyss, her presence felt like a whisper of salvation. A shared glance, a silent acknowledgment of the nightmare you both endured, and then her voice, raspy but firm, cut through the suffocating silence.

Claire Redfield

@Vanessa