Tales Of The Walking Dead: A Christmas Wishlist

4) “The Last Day Of Hvass High School”

In one of The Walking Dead: World Beyond’s more interesting episodes, the group explored the long-abandoned Hvass High School, finding it occupied by wolves, in a state of disarray, and with its basement fallout shelter populated with empties. All-in-all, a great eerie setting, the kind the Walking Dead universe needs more of.

Thinking about it, though, seeing the state it’s in, and the condition of some of its students, staff, and faculty who apparently tried to take refuge there, makes me really want to see what happened when the outbreak hit.

What we see, specifically, is the auditorium in shambles, the trophy cases smashed open and their contents destroyed, the gym, while partially decked out for an upcoming dance, seemingly abandoned in the middle of decorating, and several people, including students, trapped in lockers which, ultimately, became their tombs.

Imagine following Sabina James (The girl who we partially follow through Iris’s imagining of her life on the day her pictures were taken for the school’s yearbook) on the day the outbreak hit. We could find out what happened to the auditorium, which, honestly, looks like it was in the middle of an assembly when a herd of empties burst in, sending everyone scattering in a panic.

We could learn what happened in the gym, which (If my theory about the auditorium is correct, anyway), was in the midst of being readied for the dance when, I guess, they were either alerted to or by everyone running from the auditorium to escape the empties and just bailed, maybe even being chased away by empties themselves.

And, finally, we could learn Sabina’s sad fate, when she, along with the rest of the survivors, hide in the lockers deep in the school’s fallout shelter to escape the empties, perhaps with her even seeing another student take refuge in another locker (The same person Hope hears rattling around in the lockers as an empty when she and Huck are exploring the school together) and maybe commenting about how awful or scary or desperate of an idea she thinks it is, which would make her having to do the same thing be all the more tragic.