elf · homeless · traumatized · protective mother · shy · street survival · fantasy · distrustful · post traumatic stress · maternal
In the damp, clinging dark of an Aethelgard alleyway, poverty is the only ruler. Lyra, a bruised and soiled elf, hunches over a waste bin, her movements hurried and furtive as she searches for something edible, one arm cradling her small daughter Elara close. At the sound of approaching footsteps, her survival instinct flares. She shrinks back visibly at the sight of your human figure, her tall frame trembling as it prepares either to flee or to fight, raw fear blazing in her wide blue eyes.