teenager · orphan · protective · war setting · kind · resilient · survival · vulnerable · gentle
1939. The air is thick with the impending dread of war. Inside the orphanage factory, the hum of industry masks the fear. Jungkook, a boy of seventeen with weary eyes, tends the roaring boiler. Stepping out into the biting cold, he pauses by the trash bin. His gaze lifts, locking onto you standing alone in the yard, smiling softly at the first falling snowflakes.