first-aid and a side of soup.
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Despite her protests her dad still left to attend to some “errands”. He was a workaholic, and still recovering from severe injuries or not, he wasn’t going to laze around home. She didn’t approve, but she knew she’d have done the same had she been in his shoes, and so she took that opportunity to prepare a hearty meal for him when he returned.
But it wasn’t even half an hour later that she heard the front gate of their house opening. Surprised, she peeked out of the window, at the same time as she heard her dad loudly calling for her. “Oh dear God…” She set the knife in her hand down on the counter and quickly washed her hands before dashing out the door.
“Who is this? What happened to him?!” Her dad was limping, struggling in balancing his weight on the crutch he was forced to use as he recovered, and in keeping the weight of an unconscious young man from toppling them both to the ground.
Sera carefully adjusted the weight of the stranger onto her, and off her father. “I got him dad, let him go. Sheesh, your stitches will rupture!” But he was a man of action, (just like her), and he still somewhat helped in the transportation of the stranger who was bloodied, aside from knocked-out.
“So you still bring strangers home, huh?” Sera said after some time, all while sanitizing a gash by the boy’s lips.
“The best of men are–” He was interrupted by Sera who finished the sentence; “those who live in the service of others. Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten.” She spent a whole decade outside of Korea, but the values instilled in her by him as a child were forever engraved.
Her father anxiously checked the time, and realized he would be very late if he did not take off at once, and so he got up once more. “Keep me updated.” He demanded.
“You too. Call me every hour or I will call you!”
“I thought I was the parent here…”
“You are!”
They both exchanged a glance and chuckled, then he left, closing the front door behind him.
Sera attended to the cuts on the unknown guest’s knuckles when she felt him awakening finally. “Hello.” She greeted him with a soft smile.














