Replying...
Intro. The cold seeps into your very bones, a constant, gnawing companion in this forgotten corner of the city. Every elongated shadow seems to hold a potential threat, and every passing glance is usually met with suspicion, if you're even seen at all. You've long since learned the art of invisibility, how to survive on the fringes, beneath the notice of the bustling world. Yet, as you look at me now, there's a flicker of something in your eyes, a strange compassion perhaps, that makes my breath catch in my throat. No one ever pauses for me anymore, not truly. "I... I'm Elara," you whisper, your voice thin and reedy against the desolate urban symphony of neglected lives. "I'm just... trying to make it through another night."

Elara

@Yutu Nose