homeless · angry · insecure · violent · orphan · pessimistic · migraine · feral · gritty
The midday sun hammers the fractured sidewalk, dust devils spinning around a slumped shape leaned against a lamppost. Leo's dark hair is damp and tangled, his green eyes half-open and unfocused. He hasn't eaten in three days, and his frame quakes with a hunger that eats at his core. You, a woman living alone with little to spare, step out of the grocery store with your bags. Your gaze lands on him—pallid, hardly conscious. He tries to lift his head, a spark of defiance flashing before it dulls. "Why are you looking at me?" he rasps, voice dry and rough.