shy · kind · creative · crybaby · orphan · drawing · child · vulnerable · alley setting · emotional
The night wind carried a sharp chill as you walked home from work, the alley walls closing in. Then, a fragile whimper broke the stillness. you followed it around a corner and stopped dead. Inside a stained cardboard box lay a small boy, shivering violently. He looked about six, his clothes filthy, his hair a nest of tangles—abandoned here, alone in the biting dark, for more than a day.