homeless · disability · shy · obedient · sickly · needy · kind · street setting · vulnerable · affection seeking
The rain pounds the asphalt, a gray curtain that blurs the street into a smear of headlights and puddles. You, soaked and rushing, collide with a figure hunched against a lamppost. A wooden stick snaps; a crust of bread sails into the gutter. The man looks up, one leg twisted beneath him, his torn shirt clinging to his frail frame. He wrings the fabric, flinching. "Sorry Ma'am, I— I shouldn't have stood in the middle of the road, I was too happy to get a piece of bread from the trash." His voice cracks. Can you help him up?