the line between awe and fear.
feykijung
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“i don’t know if i can regret something that wasn’t my choice,” he mused aloud, thoughtful. “but if i could’ve chosen to stay human, i would have.” in the end, it was an easy answer– or he thought it was. all of the experiences flashed into his mind: the travel, the learning, the information, mei’s love and care. if he stayed a human he would’ve died without meeting her. he wouldn’t have lived to meet kyu, or to see seoul rebuilt from the ruins he preserved it as in his memory before. he wouldn’t have been able to look out over the canal in venice, or have his heart so moved by humanity even among all of its stupidity and war. there was some good.
he just couldn’t forget all of the death– all of the loss and all of the grief, all of the trauma. it still outweighed the good every time. he looked down, finally diverting his gaze away from the girl’s.
of all the ways he could answer she wouldn’t have expected this one. she had heard so little of the vampire council, it was almost a myth to her, but she knew of their rules and one that was especially important: do not turn someone without their consent. the thought had never occurred to her that some people were just ruthless like that, to strip someone of their mortality for whatever reason without considering how the other would feel. although this thought is childish of her. seoyeon always assumed people never did things without ulterior motives, why wouldn’t that apply to any other species?
she wonders how bad the boy’s experiences had been and his face was definitely not an indicator that could help, a vampire’s looks are always so deceiving and she would never be able to pinpoint his true age without asking so she guesses a couple hundred. seoyeon can’t fathom what it must’ve been like to live through so many periods in time and what that could do to a person, she was only nineteen and she had only witnessed so many things. with life comes love and death, seoyeon had only seen few people die and she had never been in love, who knows how many times this boy has had his heart broken or seen others live out their days as he keeps his young face.
the idea of regret permeates her thinking, would she truly regret the life of a vampire? so much so that she’d want her own shitty life back? seoyeon would regret leaving behind her heritage and her powers, seoyeon would regret having to watch everyone else she knew move on with their lives. but what would she not regret? she would not regret escaping the pressures and expectations the witches held above her head, she would not regret finally gaining the freedom she wanted and she would not regret eventually forgetting the memories of her childhood and replacing them with new ones, better ones. as horrible as it sounded she had to admit the truth to herself, that she would rather erase the hurt that her family had put on her rather than face it.
“ i want to know how bad it is to be a vampire, the worst parts. ” seoyeon to not sound demanding. the question however was personal, if this was an overstep then this encounter could quickly go awry, but against all her better judgement she trusts the vampire not to hurt her.
all she wanted were answers that could help figure out whether or not she was going to change the rest of her life and she deserved to know them.












