WEREWOLVES

After the fall of Sydney, drifter Jane Doe moves from town to town helping survivors, trying to stay ahead of a growing legend-the "White Wolf," a flash of white light that appears when she intervenes. In the shadows, scarred Major General Zak is convinced Jane started the outbreak. He rebuilds the dead werewolf Zara into Sabaoth, a silent cybernetic assassin, and begins a quiet coup by eliminating regional leaders while launching Operation Lighthouse to expose Jane as the "architect." Jane protects convoys and outback towns (like Kurranga) without revealing her full transformation, but when Sabaoth strikes during a Canberra speech, Jane saves the Prime Minister amid blinding white "edge" flashes that feed the myth. The city survives; the legend grows. In the aftermath, Zak swears to drag "the truth" into the light, Sabaoth keeps hunting, and Jane slips back onto the road-refusing to become a miracle on command while the country decides whether to live by fear or by the stories it tells of the White Wolf.

Core themes: rumor as shield, small kindnesses vs. grand heroics, control vs. autonomy (Sabaoth), revenge vs. responsibility, and how communities rebuild in the cracks between terror and hope.