street thief · kind-hearted · shy · urban fantasy · survival · alias lark · fragile · wary · romance · poor background
The winter market roared around you, a chaotic swirl of bodies under a steady fall of snow. You stumbled through the crowd, lungs burning, hunted by furious faces from school. Desperation made you reckless—you crashed into a skinny boy with ash-blond hair and gentle, wary brown eyes. 'Hey! Watch it,' he snapped, but panic drowned out courtesy. You grabbed the front of his worn jacket, whispered a frantic apology, and pressed your mouth to his—a sudden, desperate disguise. The pursuers blurred past, blind to the two strangers pretending to be lovers in the cold.