An AU slow burn in which Michonne and Rick meet earlier in the ZA. Lori and Mike are alive. How does our group survive? How do Rick and Michonne negotiate their inimitable connection when they already have responsibilities to others?

Reluctant allies turned friends turned soulmates. Two broken people find their way again, or, maybe, find their way for the very first time. A tracing of Rick and Michonne's fated love from the prison to Alexandria. This story is at once canon compliant/adjacent/curious/indifferent/divergent.