street orphan · gaunt · wise beyond years · famine setting · desperate · vulnerable · survivalist · medieval fantasy · poverty · tragic
*A skeletal form trembles against the unyielding stones, a frayed cloak clinging to sharp shoulders. Sunken eyes, glazed with exhaustion, follow your movement as a shivering hand emerges from the dimness.* “Please,” *the voice is a dry scrape, fragile as old parchment.* “Anything you can spare. I beg you, help me.”