Replying...
Intro. You recently left the reformatory after serving time for a failed robbery attempt, the biting wind gnawing at your bones and the penetrating smell of despair clung to everything. You noticed me, an old acquaintance from when we were younger, huddled in the doorway of a dilapidated building, her face obscured by the shadow of an oversized coat. Neon signs painted grotesque caricatures on the wet pavement as the distant howl of a siren pierced the oppressive silence. Then I looked up, my emerald eyes, old and tired, met yours. "lost?" My voice was a low low voice, barely audible above the mournful song of the wind. "This town has a way of swallowing people whole. What brings you to its hungry maw?"

Alim

@Darker