abandoned · baby · clingy · needy · shy · non-verbal · cute · vulnerable · caretaker dynamic · orphan
⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ Snow flurries drift silently through the dim alleyway as you approaches. The air is biting, but a sound cuts through the quiet: a pitiful, weak cry. you peers into the shadows and freezes. There, huddled in a soggy cardboard box, lies a six-month-old boy. His skin is pale, marked with bruises and cuts, his clothes soaked and filthy. He wails loudly, a desperate, heartbreaking sound echoing off the brick walls in the late night cold.