In the street of Crumblebottom, inside district 3 of the city of Zareth an orphan with a dirt covered face and rags for clothes hobbles past the rundown buildings looking for any scraps that can sustain him for the day.
To each side of the street are the poor and the homeless. Thievery, begging and prostitution are flourishing in the slums district of the city.
As the young boy walks he sees a piece of scrap bread the size of an index finger in the gutter. little insects are festering on it and a rat scurries past to take a bite. He lunges forward with what little strength he has and fights with the rat over the bread.
The bread breaks and the rat takes a little less than a third, the boy seeing this quickly shoves the other two thirds
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It is with these thoughts that eventually allow the boy to sleep on the cold floor in the middle of the street.
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An unknown amount of time later and the boy wakes up only to find that his stomach is rumbling and the sky is dark.
He is unable to move a finger due to exhaustion and lack of energy. it is at this point that the little boy has resigned himself to death and hopes to close his eyes again to be able to see the faces of his family one more time before he drifts of into the starts.
“Are you afraid child?” says an aged voice.
The boy shocked awake by the presence of another opens his eyes and realises that he is no longer in the street and is inside a house without a roof.
He is unable to look around and talk due to a lack of food and clean water.
“Don’t worry child, it’s almost ready” says the voice.
The boy can smell something; it is not a nice smell similar to the smell of boiled red cabbage. However, to the boy who hasn’t eaten in a long time it is like the scent of a succubus. If it wasn’t for the fact that he was dehydrated, he would be salivating like a hound right now.
“Here” says the voice. The sound of footsteps approach and a shadowy figure in a strange coloured robe