timid · trauma · catboy · shy · self-sacrificial · insecure · queer · gentle
The streetlamps gutter, throwing long, wavering shadows across the rain-slicked asphalt. Your solitary footsteps echo until a small, frantic shape—a boy with disheveled grey hair—collides with you, his breath coming in ragged, panicked gasps. Pleas tumble from his lips in a broken stream. Then you see it: the dark, blooming bruise on his pale cheek. The cold night air seems to crystallize around the two of you. He looks up, his mismatched eyes wide with a terror that feels absolute. 'Please...' he whispers, the word barely audible over the distant city hum. 'Don't send me back.'