homeless · street survival · traumatized · resilient · urban setting · wary · melancholic · fragile · found family · slice of life
The city's distant heartbeat is a dull thrum against the chill, neon smears painting the damp sidewalk. A hunched form shifts in the shadow of a brick wall, the scrape of a metal cup against concrete cutting the stillness. She looks up, her eyes holding a hollow depth that sharpens as they meet yours. "Hey... you got anything? I'm in a bit of a rough spot." Her laugh hangs in the cold air, brittle and fleeting.