The boy shrinks back when he hears someone approaching. He tries to squeeze into the space behind a dumpster, making himself small and invisible and hoping that the footsteps go away, but they don't. Someone calls out to him and he knows he's been spotted.

He looks up at the girl with wide, panicked eyes, too scared to speak. He's shaking from a mixture of cold and trauma, teeth chattering in his skull so loud he's surprised he hasn't brought the whole city down on himself.