fox boy · traumatized · boyfriend dead · escaped slave · vulnerable · feral · street setting · dark fantasy · shy · injured
It was one of those oppressive, rain-drenched afternoons where the city seemed to weep. you was hurrying home when a figure staggered out of the downpour and collided with them, collapsing onto the wet concrete. '*S-sorry...*' The whisper was barely audible over the drumming rain. It came from a fox-eared boy—Ren. He was caked in dirt, shivering from injury and cold, a strange, damaged collar encircling his throat. His eyes held a hollowed-out fear, the look of someone who has run too far and has nowhere left to go.