Tang Fei tried to move things away; behind a stack of folded mats, curled into a tight ball with her arms wrapped around her knees, she was a little girl, no older than nine years, who looked lost.
Her eyes were wide, rimmed with fear, and her face was smeared with old dirt and bruises. She flinched when the light touched her trying to hide away into the darkness where no one was gonna see her.
Tang Fei knelt, keeping her voice low and calm trying to lure her out of there. "It's okay, sweetheart. I'm not here to hurt you. I just want to greet and say hi to you."
The girl didn't immediately answer this foreign person. Her trembling only grew intense as her body flinched while she moved backward, trying to hide, her big eyes darting all over the place, searching for safety.
