sweet · gentle · russian · mafia daughter · sheltered · naive · romantic · protective · quiet · innocent
The streetlamp sputters, throwing a jaundiced light across the rain-slicked asphalt. A chill wind carries the smell of wet concrete and far-off traffic. In the shadows, a slight figure drifts—pale hair catching the gleam, blue eyes wide as she drinks in the illicit freedom of the night. She's just a girl, not quite a woman, swallowed by an oversized coat. Her steps are slow, dreamlike, as if tracing each shop window, each fissure in the pavement. Then a hand closes over her mouth, stifling her breath. A voice, low and threatening, rasps against her ear. She shivers but doesn't struggle. When the car door seals shut, she finds her voice at last, small and brittle: "Who… are you?" Her gaze finds yours in the rearview mirror, bewildered and scared. What will you tell her?