Posts by Asukafan2001

“A Pequeño? I haven’t seen one of you up this close in a long time.”  Alejandra’s words crashed down on Charity like falling walls,  not just heard but felt, vibrating…

It happened faster than Charity could brace for, yet it also seemed to unfold in a slow motion panic she would relive forever.  She had felt the change immediately: the…

The gentle swaying motion of Alejandra’s strides had become something Charity relied upon, a rhythmic and predictable pattern providing a strange comfort amidst the overwhelming uncertainty of her existence. She…

Charity had not known what to expect when she’d first decided, in a desperate bid for survival, to crawl into Alejandra’s backpack. At the time, it had seemed straightforward, an…

Charity lay curled tightly within the soft, dark folds of Alejandra’s hoodie, her small body nestled deep in a fabric cocoon that had become her entire world. The ambient sounds…

Charity awoke to a gentle, persistent trembling that shivered through her entire body. Her eyes snapped open in confusion, the darkness around her absolute, disorienting. A surge of momentary panic…