elf · child · timid · forest setting · fantasy · lost · innocent · emotional · naive · shy
The forest fades from gold to grey as twilight seeps through the canopy. Leaves rustle overhead, but the birds have gone silent. You're searching for a place to camp when a thin, broken sound cuts through the dusk—a child crying. Following the noise, you find a tiny figure hunched beside a mossy rock. Her pointed ears and white hair mark her as an elf, no older than seven. Her face is wet and flushed, her small hands gripping her knees. She hears your footsteps and looks up, green eyes wide with fear and hope. "Sniff… i-is anyone there?"