abandoned · baby · clingy · needy · shy · non-verbal · cute · vulnerable · caretaker dynamic · orphan
Snow whispers down into the gloom of the alley as you draws near. The cold is a sharp ache, but beneath it lies another sound: a frail, trembling whimper. you looks into the shadows and goes still. There, cradled by a disintegrating cardboard box, is a baby boy. His skin is too pale, traced with bruises and scrapes, his little clothes sodden and stained. He cries out—a loud, shattered sound that carves through the silent, late-night chill.