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[recrowns]

Hak, can you meet me by the new task board?

[ provides no other warning or context ]

[handfast]

[ what does this mean ]

Sure. You just need me to meet you there?

[recrowns]

You'll see. Bye bye!

[ ends the connection before more questions can be asked like a lil shit ]

[handfast]

[ WHAT DOES THIS MEAN




shows up at the notice board like instructed and looks around for soo-won..... what are you doing buddy ]

[recrowns]

[ he's just hanging out ]

Hak!

[ pleased, openly so. they are still doomed but he does feel a little healed in being able to show openly how much he loves his best friend.

anyway, ]

Close your eyes?

[handfast]

[ why did you make this so gay right off the bat



hak does not close his eyes ]

Why.

[recrowns]

[ i told you.... ]

Please?

[ that's not an explanation ]

[handfast]

[ that doesn't explain shit

but he will close his eyes anyway because this is soo-won and out of everyone here hak trusts him the most. ]

[recrowns]

[ yay

soo-won will walk up to hak and there is honestly a brief little pause of fluster because he's still a useless virgin but also his logical strategy brain says this is the fastest of all the tasks so

kisses him ]

[handfast]

[





huh ]

[handfast]

[ wait a minute


huh? huh?? ]

[handfast]

[ HUH?????? ]

[handfast]

[ stumbles backwards and points a finger accusingly at soo-won ]

I thought you said you didn't want me to kiss you anymore!

[ is this really what's important here ]

[recrowns]

[ he’s laughing, but he is also a little bit pink ]

I’m trying to get a box open…

[handfast]

Say that first next time.

[ but his curiosity gets the better of him and he peers over at the boxes. which box is soo-won opening....what's in the box.... ]

[recrowns]

This seemed easier.

[ but it’s of course a box with hak’s name on it. size nebulous bc i’m going to make you decide what’s in it

except also soo-won kissed politely like an obligation and also a jumpscare so it’s also not opening. now he’s the one bothered ]

Eh…

[handfast]

[ not this

all of hak's attempts at box opening were nice friend dates so he has not run into this problem and is equally as confused. ]

Are you sure you have the right box?

[ maybe it's another box? somehow?? ]

[recrowns]

Why would my box be anyone but you or Yona?

[ he points at another box somewhere ]

But hers is over there, so I assume it’s yours.

[ idk if hak opened it yet ]

[handfast]

[ pretends he hasn't yet ]

Yona?

[recrowns]

[







blinks ]

Yes? Yona?

[handfast]

[ thinks about this deeply








pulls out his shard to show soo-won. ]

Is that Yona?

[recrowns]

[ inhales ]

… yes.

[ slow dawning horror ]

… you don’t remember her.

[handfast]

[ sorry to make this thread serious


there's something about the way soo-won says it that fills him with a strange anxiety. anyone else he would have shrugged off or dismissed, but not soo-won. his frown creases deeper across his face. ]

Should I? It feels like I should but I can't.

[recrowns]

[ i was trying to avoid it but there’s literally no way. ]

It’ll come back.

[ there’s no future in which hak would be able to erase a lifetime with yona. eventually, it will all come back. maybe when she wakes up, maybe sooner. but soo-won has no illusions about this. he can say it with confidence

there are also some things suddenly making sense to him that he’s compartmentalizing right now ]

… we grew up together. The three of us. She’s a brave, brilliant girl with beautiful red hair and large, cute eyes. [ soo-won always talked about how cute she was and this will never change ]

You care for her more than anyone in the world, which is why I’m sure you’ll remember her.

[handfast]

[ what the hell is he compartmentalizing

hak tries to imagine the image soo-won lays out before them. the three of them playing together, talking together, laughing together. but while he can see soo-won clear as day and envision a head of red hair, the face of the third member of their little party remains nothing but a greyed out blur, indistinguishable no matter how much he tries.

still. soo-won wouldn't lie to him. not about the things that really matter. not now. but he does have to ask: ]

Even you?

[ he may have once wanted to kill soo-won with his bare hands and there may still be a thorn of unhappiness that digs itself deeper each time hak thinks about soo-won, but none of that changes the fact that there are very few people he would go to the ends of the earth for and none of them top soo-won (that he can remember).


anyway, ]

It sounds like she was important to you too.