Plot;
Karmin is a survivor of the End, an apocolaspe of heat. She holds on dearly to the believe that she can't be the only one who survived and sets out to search for people.
Hiwever, finding people is great, so long as they don't want to shoot you for the clothes off your back or the food and water in your rucksack.
YOUR CHARACTER is another survivor, who has made a truce pact with a couple other people to watch eachothers backs. However, they want to lure Karmin in to get her stuff. He, instead, falls in love with her. They run off, sourcing materials and other things as they go. Technology still works, as long as it doesn't require electricity. Ya cars, too bad for GPS, though who really wants to know where they're going in a desert world. Everyone knows there will just be more sand.
IC-
The end of the world had come with a warning. Birds had flown high into the skies, only to dive bomb into the ground to their deaths. Land animals had jumped into watery graves, while aquatic creatures had beached themselves.
And the warning had only been ten minutes before the end.
Karmin could remember every detail around her as she had miracalously lived through 'The End', as she so inocently called it. Like it was the ending to a fairy tale that no one had flipped the last page of to see how it really ended.
She remembered sitting out in the middle of a lake, swimming circles around the ducks and trying to keep the fish from nibbling her toes. Then the sudden panic and fear of scorching air rushing over the water until it began evaporating, feeling like a sauna. She had dove under to escape the burning feeling on her face, and when she had come back up, the world was no longer as she had known it. Trees lay topped and burning, the quaint little cottage she had called home for the summer was blasted apart.
But she wasn't one to give up. She had never been one of those stereotypical girls, with their starbucks and their stupid looking ugg boots. While they sipped their frappés, Karmin sat in wet campsites with her father, hunting and fishing. Surviving like the foodchain had meant them to do.
Now though, she walked along dried out riverbeds, lucky if she could catch the morning dew in her canteen before daybreak. Animals were scarce, so dried fruits were her best source of nutrition.
Following these river made walkways, she found herself passing through many ghost towns. All either abandonned or cleared out by the End.