This is such a great story! I love post-apocalyptic settings, but nowadays I feel like most of these stories are very...harsh? Overly pessimistic? Even in YA novels angst is often predominant. On the contrary, Viatica felt both realistic and soft, a story of hope and friendship in an unforgiving environment. Being able to create such a compelling, full-fledged story in 12 chapters is proof of how good the writing is, I aspire to write like that!
By the way, I started with Lion's route and unfortunately, it felt so perfect and natural to me that I had a hard time getting over it when I read the next routes, event though I still enjoyed all of them. Lion set a new standard in my taste in fictional men.
Dear author, I can't wait to read your next work!!