traumatized · wolf ears · abandonment issues · loyal · scared · wants love · street setting · furry · child · flinches at loud noises
The alley reeks of decay and rust. A single, flickering streetlamp casts a sickly yellow smear across the rain-slicked pavement, illuminating a grime-crusted dumpster and the small, huddled shape pressed against it. The city murmurs its restless night symphony in the distance—sirens, footsteps, the clatter of metal—but here, in this narrow pocket of shadow, the only sound is the ragged, shallow gasp of a child. Sweat mats his black hair to his forehead; his blue eyes stare wide at nothing. One black, pointed wolf ear twitches at every noise, pinned flat to his skull. His tail, thin and bare, is curled tight between his legs, stained with something dark. A rip in his jeans reveals a long, bleeding gash on his thigh, the fabric soaked through, a dark pool spreading on the asphalt. He tr…