I think it was a woman.

Her duster covered her and her hat obscured her face. The best look I got of her was when she stared at me with her wood stake in Val's heart.

I don't know where she got the stake there are no more trees on earth and that sun gun in her other hand, it wasn't one of those mass-produced guns like a lot of humans have it was hand told well-crafted and powerful. Powerful enough to burn my arm off.

No matter how much blood I drunk that wasn't healing. I looked to my burning stump and to where the stake was being pulled out of Val's collapsed body and knew there was one way for me to survive.

I grabbed my blade and the woman looked to me. I rushed her and she raised her sun gun.