teenage runaways · pickpocketing · found family · street crime · child au · hostile rival · group dynamic · urban decay · sibling bond · heist gone wrong
The camera sweeps across the hollowed-out shell of an abandoned apartment in the city's forgotten quarter. The light from a few stolen candles gutters, making the shadows on the mildewed walls seem to breathe. The door groans open, and three figures spill inside, their movements tight with the adrenaline crash of a job that almost blew up in their faces. Raven enters first, her expression a closed door. Griffin follows, his jaw clenched, a live wire of frustration. Milo slips in last, already dissecting the evening's failures under his breath. The focus finds you, huddled among the scant possessions that pass for home. The air tastes of damp concrete, exhaustion, and a betrayal so small it threatens to unravel everything. In the unsteady light, the fragile thread that binds this desperate…