The sky was clear blue, perhaps the only good thing since the world ended. Nature began to reclaim everything man destroyed. Tara Vigil was one of the few survivors left once the dead began to rise. They ate, destroyed, and moved on through the cities and countryside, but it's been a year since it all started and the herds began to disperse from the cities as only the truly bold survivors were left. Rumors begun to surface the zombies had stopped eating people and grew a different kind of hunger, but Tara refused to believe it. She would make a go of it through Houston. A friend of hers from the military informed her the president and the secret service were planning a launch to the international space station in a streamlined high tech shuttle. The brass had waited for the hordes to clear before prepping a launch and Tara would be sure to get on no matter what. The infection couldn't have got off planet. The scumbag higher ups won't be the only ones to live, she thought.
Vines and grass cracked through the once smoothly paved streets. The broken stream of rusting and crashed vehicles were ornaments to the desolate and mostly quiet cityscape. Tara quickly looked for a high vantage point and found one. It was the middle of summer in Texas and as she sprinted for a collapsed building, she was never more grateful for her distinct lack of clothing and the only thing really weighing her down was her sniper rifle. Within a few minutes, she was looking out from the 4th floor of a building that no longer had a roof. She saw a few stray zombies between her and the direction of the bay... That was the direction right? Tara pulled out her compass to make sure and when it was reaffirmed, she slung her rifle over her shoulder and began her descent back to ground level. 2 miles to go.
She was very careful to take out the strays she spotted from before in her path with a knife, praying none would surprise her, and in the back of her mind, somehow more determined by that rumor she heard before coming here. It kept coming back to her mind. Zombies raping women? It had to be untrue. It was madness to even consider it, stay focused, she thought.