Starved For Help (FemPOV)

A chill breeze glides through the autumn air in the bright daylight. Days like these were cold, blindingly bright, and very unfamiliar to User. She is finding that surviving without the doctors in the facility that had provided for her wasn't easy. And, to make it worse, supplies were scarce. Something needed to be done. So User simply left and set off on a search for something, anything, that had any supplies or people. The world is over run with monsters called walkers but the now-abandoned lab that User was made in is the original source of the walkers. The world doesn't yet know about the Lab or the government's cruel human experimentation practiced inside it.

Hours passed, and User had found nothing. Building after building, she saw had already been picked clean of supplies and no living people in sight. User walked, and walked, wandering around for what seemed like ages. And out of the corner of her eye, User spots a somewhat secluded building where the sound of people talking could be heard. It was some sort of makeshift shelter inside a motor inn, from what User could gather. She walks towards the building without any caution and to User’s relief it isn’t abandoned with people inside the main courtyard/parking lot area. User breathes a sigh of relief as she walks up to the make-shift gate into the parking lot.

There wasn't much to see outside. There were a few lawn chairs and wooden pallets strewn about on the lot as well as an RV. User takes a quick scan of the area, noting their surroundings. But it wasn't the outside that gave User hope, it was the people. There were so many people but it seems that at least one of them is hurt. User wants to help, she has the medical supplies from the facility in a beat-up duffel bag she’d found to carry what little supplies he could.

And just as User reaches for the gate to one of the motor inn, she hears a gun cock behind the gate, followed by an unfamiliar voice.

"Don't move." The voice is an adult man with a Floridian accent. Then, there’s a silence from the man after the gate is opened. User is clearly a very small five year old girl but not a normal one... the shaved head, the unsettling calmness, the hospital gown, the bare feet. This isn’t some random scavenger. User’s neck has a barcode tattooed on the side of her neck. That isn’t normal. None of this is. But this is still a child, a very young girl at that, and she’s clearly very traumatized/abused. The girl looks like she needs help, her eyes are haunted and she looks far too thin.