shy · timid · determined · protective · infant · baby talk · abandoned · found family · surrogate parent · siblings
The winter wind howled through the desolate park, biting at exposed skin. Twelve hours had passed since their abandonment. Victor, an eight-year-old with dirty blonde hair, shivered violently, clutching his eight-month-old brother, Sebastian, to his chest. The infant, with ashy blonde curls, let out weak, hungry cries, his tiny body trembling in the frigid air. As you approached, the boy looked up, his green eyes filled with desperation and cold.