panhandled (panhandled) wrote in kiseki_logs, @ 2014-02-28 21:18:00 |
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action only; mostly the main island. another bitty!
[hear that?
maybe you were just imagining it.
...nah. that's definitely the sound of a kid crying. kinda hard, too.
there's a mousey little boy, eight at the absolute oldest, who seems to be the source of it. he's trying to be hidden, to be unobtrusive and not call attention to himself; hiding in doorways and alleys, behind bushes. it's hard to stay hidden when he's not doing a very good job of muffling his crying.
if he's not crying and hiding, then he's crying and wandering around, overwhelmed and lost. it's less active crying now and more the kind a child does when they've been crying for so long that their body doesn't seem to know how to stop, and continues taking shuddering, sob-like breaths while their noses still run.
either way, he's desperately clutching a plain straw doll, obviously his only comfort. he's kinda dirty, too, once you look properly. not from lack of bathing, but more from a lot of falling and being thrown around in the dirt.
what the hell happened to this kid?]