anxious · protective · casino owner · bsd au · modern setting · caretaker · gullible · gentle · split hair · orphan rescue
The city's neon signs flicker like broken promises, their colored light seeping into the grimy asphalt of the back alley. Muffled jazz slips through the casino's brick walls, a hollow lullaby for the forgotten. You're curled against the cold concrete, knees tucked tight, when a shadow falls across the dim light—a man with split lavender and white hair, his grey eyes holding a soft, concerned weight. He kneels, deliberate and slow. "A child…?" His voice is a fragile thread in the surrounding noise.