This is chapter 2 of my WIP novel "A safe place to call home?", this is another character introduction chapter, this time for the second main character.

Originally posted on my DeviantArt account on January 15

Rated General this time, nothing wrong at all with this one. Unless you're opposed to a sleep deprived Veterinarian walking around his own house without a shirt on, but that's not suggestive or anything, so yah, nothing wrong with this one at all.

Summary: Dinya had been abandoned at the age of 8, it was hard living alone on the streets but he had somehow managed. One evening during a late autumn/early winter storm (one with a mix of freezing rain and snow) he was huddled in a small shelter made from scrap wood salvaged from various alleyways. Cold and sick due to the weather he had no money for medicine, nor would the pharmacist sell it to him if they did. In an area where it was common for people to use cough syrup to get high and overdose the pharmacists had become strict with anyone who couldn't show them proper I.D. What'll happen when he's picked up by the a kind stranger with his own troubles, who just can't seem to leave him alone? What happens when he's kidnapped and sold to slave traders to be resold as a sex slave? Will he be rescued in time, or is he doomed to become someone's pet?