[Participant of the Royal Road Community Magazine January 2021]

If Iris Durand can go back in time, she will build a bomb shelter and live there with her family and friends for the remainder of her life span.

But time does not bend to human folly, and choices are made the moment we choose to breathe.

Humanoid-like monsters with onyx-coloured scales appear all over the world suddenly. They attack indiscriminately and have a voracious appetite for human flesh.

As the cities fall one by one and the monsters infect other humans to join their ranks of senseless destruction, the end of the world is nigh.

Yet, in the face of imminent defeat, Iris Durand chooses to fight till the day she draws her final breath.