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“I’ve got some bandages, wait a sec.”

“ah, thank you so much!” hyerin says loudly to the woman’s retreating figure, going off to get the bandages from her bag, before turning her attention back to the child sat down on the ground in front of her, small hands clutching his knee. parks mean little kids running around, their parents far from them, and little kids running around means that someone is bound to get hurt, too much excitement and energy pulsing in their body, and that was exactly what happened to this little guy. running around with so much energy, he bumped into someone and fell to the ground, his knee scraping the rocky, sandy surface. no parent that could have been his was in sight, and hyerin and the other woman were the only adults in the area. “it’s okay dear, she’s getting bandages for you, then we’re going to look for your mom afterwards, okay?” she says in a soft voice, patting his head to try and calm his tears.

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49.

“Has anyone told you you have amazing eyes?”

hyerin is caught by surprise for two reasons. one being the sudden compliment, bringing a red tint to her cheeks and a laugh stuck in her throat, as she tries to restrain both from coming, with all her internal willpower, and two being that she had received the compliment from a man, or boy really, who looked no older than twenty, not blending in with the current crowd in the bar, people in their forties and fifties. she lets out a laugh, allowing herself just one, before she answers the man in front of her. “well, i can’t say i haven’t, but nonetheless, this is sweet.” she directs a smile to him, to show her appreciation for his nice words. “ah, but may i ask, what are you doing here?”

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8, 24 & 49

“Does it hurt when I touch it?”

"touch what -- ow!” she pulls her arm away from him, twisting it to see where he had just poked, and oh. that’s what he was talking about. a medium-sized blue and black bruise on her upper arm that she didn’t realize was there. her eyes narrowing and her eyebrows furrowing, she tries to remember any time of the day that would have resulted in her bruising on the arm, but her mind draws to a blank. “to answer your question, yeah, it does hurt when you touch it.”

“I’ve got some bandages, wait a sec.”

she simply nods as he runs off to get the bandages, hurriedly running the open wound on her finger under running water, applying pressure on the wound to control the bleeding. hyerin isn’t accident-prone, nor does she have a hard time multitasking, but having her use sharp objects and have them dangerously near her fingers while talking is going to end badly. she winces slightly at the pain as she puts pressure on the wound, looking around to see where he was. at the sight of the man rushing in, a box of bandaids in his hand, she lets out a sigh of relief. “come on, hurry up!”

“Has anyone told you you have amazing eyes?”

hyerin feels a blush creeping up onto her cheeks, her lips forming a shy smile before she quickly covers it with her hands, letting out a soft laugh. it takes her a short moment to will the blush away from her cheeks and the shy smile away from her lips. she didn’t normally hear compliments like that, especially ones out of the blue. she lets out a small cough, to try and calm her face and emotions down, before replying. “no... no one has told me.”

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“ i think… it’s broken. ”

“you think?!” the man, who she found all bloodied and practically unconscious and lying on the sidewalk at around three in the morning, seeming to be left for dead, just thinks that his arm is broken? hyerin is no doctor, but she knows that his arm is most likely broken, and he has so much more worse injuries. curiousity rouses in her mind, what was the man doing there? why was he all bloody yet no one seemed to be tending to him? she wants answers to her questions, but that isn’t her focus right now. her focus is getting the man serious medical attention, and fast. she reaches for her phone and dials the emergency number as fast as her fingers can. “i’m calling for help, okay? don’t move so much, you might worsen your injuries.”

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“ i just need to sit down for a minute.”

hyerin’s eyebrows furrow with her lips slightly parted, her eyes looking over the woman’s body. this kind of thing, people getting dizzy from drinking too much, is quite common in her workplace, and of course, it would be wrong to simply leave the woman here, dizzy and seemingly alone. her hands quickly reach out to help and guide the woman to a nearby seat. “is there anything i can do to help?” she asks, crouching down in front of the woman to meet her eyes.

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TURNER

TURNER: True or false: An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

revenge was a concept hyerin never dwelled on. as much as she’s been betrayed and hurt in her life, she’s never been one to take revenge. “true, i think?” hyerin answers, uncertainty evident in her voice. “revenge will always be a cycle, and it’ll keep going on until there’s nothing left to attack.” it’s part of human nature to protect yourself when harmed; people want to make other people feel the pain they’ve felt. it’s somewhat therapeutic to see someone who has done you wrong suffering, is it not? hyerin didn’t really know. “but what do i really know about revenge.”

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VAN GOGH

VAN GOGH: Would you rather become famous after death or famous in life but forgotten after death?

“i think… i’d rather be famous in life and forgotten after death.” hyerin has never really thought about this, despite working in performing arts and having dedicated herself to performing. “i mean, if i were ever to become famous, i’d like to be alive to revel in the fame. it’d be nice to get a lot of money too.” even when people say that their aim in performing is simply to be happy doing so, the need to be famous, or at least well-known will always be there. being happy in doing music doesn’t pay bills, or put food on the table. a goal in performing, whether be it implicitly or explicitly said, is to become well-known enough to get money.

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Flink

FLINK: Are you a night owl or morning bird?

“i’m a night owl, for sure.” she answers, with complete certainty in her voice and nodding gesture. “work ends around one in the morning, or the earliest is midnight, so when i get home, i sleep the morning away most of the time.” finding hyerin awake early in the morning is a surprise that is accompanied by a short-tempered hyerin. her work hours have made her incapable of functioning as properly as she would in the afternoon and night.