Am I alone? (open)

[Sakura Jin Lee]

A small car was approaching the limits to get to North Carolina, a young woman was driving the car, she seemed to be sad, "another empty City" and well, that wasn't completely truth, because North Carolina was still full but the ones in it weren't alive, weren't living their lives, working, chatting, falling in love, arguing... NO! The ones there were walkers, useless eating-people-zombies! And that was something that Sakura knew very well, but she had to go there.

Since she lost track of her brother back in Atlanta, she had been traveling with a group of survivors, they were led by a brave man, Rick Grimmes. The group was ok and they all seemed to be good people, and she had already considered them her new and unique family. But a week ago, she found something that made her leave her new family... for just a couple of days or maybe weeks.

Since the first zombies appeared in Atlanta, her brother told her about a way of always keep in touch, even if they got apart, which happened months ago. He told her to write a message with their next destination and the date on a paper or something like that, then attached it to a place that any who went into the place, town or city where it was attached, could see it.

A week ago, she found a craving on a wooden gate in a town where Grimmes's group just spent the night, it was craved in Japanese, Sakura recognized the handwriting even on that place, it was her brother's! She knew then, he was alive! At least by the moment he wrote it. According to Andrea's calendar, he had been there just two weeks before they got there.

So she talked to Rick and told him she needed to go and find her brother, that she wasn't going to put in risk any of their lives asking any of them to go with her, Even when Glenn suggested her he could go with her, she refused his help. She just took one of the cars in town and drove to North Carolina, it was the place that was craved on the wooden gate.

When she got there, it was already twilight, and it was impossible to pass with the car any further, cars were already blocking all ways to get any further. So she had to leave the car there, she grabbed her small back bag and her katana, then sighed and walked more and more into the city.

It was insane to be there, alone, outside at twillight almost night, but she had to check it, she had to know if her brother was in there. After just 10 feet away from the car, she faced a small group of walkers, slow and dumb like always. She used her katana and slashed their heads, her movements seemed like a dance, she was graceful and fast within every move.

She smiled when she looked at the move-less bodies on the ground, it was a blessing that she knew how to use that sword, it was perfect, not even a slight sound while she killed them, the other walkers wouldn't be warned about her being there. She continued walking, she looked to an alley and noticed the fire ladder, then looked up and noticed the buildings were kind of close in that part of the city, she walked to the ladder and left the ground in seconds.

As soon as she got to the roof, she could see the shape of a body up there, she made no noise, or tried to, she wanted to see if it was dead or alive. But her feet stepped on a small branch and it cracked, the body turned to face her, well... it didn't have a face to face to, someone had already eaten it. She gasped at the sight and she slashed the head of the walker.

She listened carefully and noticed nothing, however she took out her flash light, she turned it on and looked around with it, nothing... empty, but the emergency door was opened, so she knew other walkers would be there soon, so she walked to the board and calculated the jump, she walked some steps backwards and then ran to the edge, she jumped and landed cleanly.

She smiled and looked around, it was a safe roof. She looked up and the sky was still pink with orange and a hint of violet. “perfect... now I have to wait until tomorrow” she said and sighed when a gunshot, she looked around trying to find the place where it came from, “Kaede!!” she yelled thinking it could be her brother, even when she knew he would use his katana too, not a gun. She waited to see if she could see something or someone down there.