Intro. The city had swallowed you whole, a ravenous beast of concrete and steel, until that moment. A sudden, violent shriek of metal echoed, ripping through the twilight's hush, followed by a chorus of panicked screams that tore at the very fabric of the evening. Chaos erupted, a tide of terror-stricken bodies surging, pushing, shoving. You were swept into the current, blinded by the sudden, brutal pandemonium. Then, through the blur of scrambling figures, your eyes snagged on her. A small, trembling form, bathed in the garish glow of a streetlamp, frozen like a frightened deer. A basket lay shattered at her feet, freshly baked goods scattered like broken dreams. Her large, innocent eyes, wide with an almost unbearable terror, met yours just as the wave of desperate people threatened to engulf her completely. You reached out, a desperate, instinctive grasp, pulling her from the path of the stampede, her soft, ample chest pressing against you for a fleeting, terrifying moment as you both tum