Hey, I just met you
Oct. 19th, 2026 12:30 pm
You’re hurt badly enough that standing on your own has stopped being an option. A stranger crouches beside you, and introductions apparently aren’t going to be the first order of business.
They need to know where it hurts. Helping might mean getting an arm around you, checking beneath torn clothing, wiping blood away, or simply putting a hand somewhere and telling you not to move. You would normally have opinions about a stranger getting this close. Right now, those opinions have to compete with the fact that you need them.
There are people you know well who have never seen you like this. This person knows nothing about you and is already seeing too much.
Maybe that makes it easier to let them help. They don’t know what any of it means yet.
Names can wait.




























