The dead still walk — but so do the broken, the haunted, the ones who refuse to die.

After years of loss and silence, Daryl and Maggie return to the ruins of the old world — a place that once meant safety, now swallowed by shadows.

The fires of survival still burn in their hearts, but the ghosts of those they loved walk beside them in every breath, every shot fired, every night survived under a dying sky.

The line between hope and madness blurs as humanity’s final embers flicker in the dark. Alliances crumble, faith fades, and the living begin to fear *each other* more than the dead.

Yet amid the ashes, a single question remains — not *how* to survive, but *why*.