The Last Howl
"We have no plan! We're hiding in a wooden shack with half-empty rations and a wounded captain! We're dead! We're all already dead!"
"I said shut up," Denzel repeated, stepping forward, but Alexander extended a single, rigid arm to stop him.
Alexander hadn't moved from the doorway. He stood tall, his broad frame casting a long shadow across the threshold, but his silver eyes were strangely distant, fixed on the black radio set. The unyielding confidence that usually surrounded him like an armor felt fractured. He was the heir to the throne, a warrior trained to command armies, but how could anyone command against the total annihilation of the world?