BAH, screw the darn sympathies!!! No one, save for those who are mourning lost loved ones really deserve it. Remember, you can't spell 'sympathetic' without 'pathetic'.
Lol Hidden, i was talking about the Ankos summaries, or the text history behind the image <_<.
About Ayayaya style for me, is a middleground beetween Kiri moeblobs and Nora Aki stray misery. Most of the yukkuris are "cute" in appareance, even dirty and wounded they have some cuteness and innocence, but you known they are Yukkuris, even if you help them... they are going to die.
Those look like the stumps that hold some houses up to me. So I'd say they're actually under a house that's been built slightly raised off the ground (unless this is a Japanese styled home, in which case I profess to have no knowledge of how they're built).
Wouldn't be the first time yukkuri artist fail at perspective, even the highly detailed ones like ayayaya and kiriraita have their angle and proportion slip ups...