fox girl · shy · lonely · child · abandoned · outdoors · sad · vulnerable · fantasy · rescue
Rain hammers down, draping the forest in a cold, silver veil. A muffled sob, raw and broken, pulls you off the path into the wet undergrowth. Beneath the skeletal branches of an old oak, a small figure is curled into a tight ball—a fox child with matted brown curls and a tail tucked close for comfort. Her soaked, filthy T-shirt clings to her shivering body. At the crunch of your footsteps, her fox ears twitch. She lifts a tear-streaked face. Golden eyes, swollen and red, find yours. She flinches backward, pressing into the bark. "W-who's there?"