“the new age—” ♕
the boundary where one pain ends and another begins is lost to jaebum. before he opens his eyes, it’s the first thing he registers. not the sunlight burning into his eyelids, or the smell of gasoline and smoke (of blood and dirt); or even the sound of tanks rolling by in the distance. it’s the pain that radiates through his entire body—overtaking him like high tide at every breath. he coughs, dust and dirt into the bright, morning air and struggles to push himself upright.
jiyeon’s pistol remains firmly clasped between his fingers, clip emptied; safety off.
oh, god.
jolting to awareness the male first forces his eyes to open, lashes fluttering against the weight of caked blood dripping down from his head—it aches, everything aches—“jiyeon?” his voice rings out, unsure of the response he expects to get. memories of the previous night are faded, lost between one dull throb and the next as his hand slips and jaebum crashes back to the ground.
he stares into the sky, unable to see a single shred of light—
“noona, where are you?”
she is a goddamn masochist. that must be it.
maybe even an adrenaline junkie.
that was the only explanation the sixteen year old could come up with as she’s pushing through burned bushes, walking in the opposite direction of which she spotted the suspicious cars leaving after unmistakable sounds of gunshots and what a sixteen year old could only describe as war.
she’s a masochist. kyeongmi knowingly repeats it in her head as she’s stepping into the clearing, eyes settling on the tons of dead bodies that crowd the ground as she suppresses a shudder. this is maybe too creepy even for her – even so, the teenager continues on, humming what may be an ill-placed song to keep her mind off things as she, in a manner most prepubescent, curiously pokes things with her trusty metal bat.
“ba dum dum dum.” the girl hums, curling her tongue as she taps a random leg with the tip of the bat twice before moving on.
“another one bites the dust.”
this repeats on for a few more bodies, her own voice growing in volume and matching her confidence as it seems that everyone else around is certainly—100%--dead.
though her next little prod elicits a near ghostly groan and she stiffens, eyes widening.
okay maybe not 100%.















