" your power is healing, right? Maybe you can heal my memories. "
" your... memories ? "
in which a girl becomes the refugee of a few lost boys with rather strange abilities.
astro au
A soft yet bright light pries my eyes open. I jerk up from what I wish could be a bad dream.
I look down and notice I'm still in my uniform, but I sit on top of dead leaves. Looking up, I realize where I am.
Seoul Forest.
I quickly stand up and shake my head. "This can't be..." I'm ready to scream out for Taeyong when I hear rustling. Not again. No, please don't tell me I'm stuck on some weird groundhog day.
I turn around to the bush and then back again but instead of a boy greeting me as I expected, it's a fox.
I tilt my head at it as it does to me. It's not hostile and it doesn't look lost. The fox turns around and begins walking into the forest. As it doesn't hear me behind it, it turns its head at me.
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It wants me to follow it.
It begins jogging so I run behind it, knowing that if it follows my dream, a car will begin chasing me. But this can't be following my dream. It can't...
Yet here the fox stops, at the big trunk my dream had ended at. I touch the trunk like how that boy did, and just as it felt then, it feels now.
The fox then sprints away and I'm left alone behind this tree. I search around for a sign of anyone but nothing ruffles through leaves, nothing whispers or calls for me. Looking up at the leaves of the tree, I feel slightly dizzy.
"Rina."
I yelp yet again as I turn around and look down, a sigh of relief escapes me. Purple and swirls of white. "Eunwoo."
He smiles as he grabs onto my wrist. "Thank you for remembering. I know you have questions but we don't have much time before they show up. We need to take you somewhere safe."
We begin walking fast, he holds onto my wrist with one hand, and with the other, he touches each tree we pass. "We?"
"My friends and I." He then points at the tree he just touched. "And the forest."
I blink as I follow him. "The... the trees?"
"Miss Hwang, I can't explain right now." He stops dead in his tracks and I look at him. His eyes begin shaking as if he was reading a book.
"Eunwoo—"
"Take off your shirt."
I quickly cross my hands over my chest. "Excuse me?!"
"You have a tracker on it, it won't come off." Eunwoo looks dead serious as he points at me. "Feel it, it's on your collar. Come on Hwang, they'll find us."
I quickly feel my collar and indeed, there's a bump on it that feels different than my fabric. It is seen in between the fabric that connects my collar to the rest of the shirt, but how? I look at him as I point up and down at myself. "Dude, I can't just take my shirt off."
