REAPERS

°•°2×| the strange tall man

"Ahh there he is!" A familiar voice called out.

Jaeseop felt like he has just woken up from a rough nap...and he doesn't recognize where he's at now.

The sky is a musty haze of dark purple, and the landscape is an endless field of dead grass and trees.

He recalls the conversation he had with the disembodied voice like it were a fuzzy dream, but this right now...it felt as real as ever.

A tall man approached Jaeseop. His long black cloak flows gracefully behind him, it's slightly torn and tattered, but it matched the rugged style that the rest of his outfit sported. The shadow of his hood covered his face.

The tall man extended a hand to Jaeseop. Through the darkness of his hood, the strangers eyes looked down upon him, inked black with blazing red pupils.

Jaeseop shakily grasped the stranger's hand, whom elegantly led Jaeseop away to who-knows-where.

After walking through a long path in the middle of a forest full of dead trees, they end up at the front of a huge estate. It looks abandoned, which fits the aesthetic of it's lifeless surroundings.

Jaeseop thought he should be feeling panicked by now.

A stranger taking him to an abandoned building in the middle of nowhere...but he felt oddly calm, even after mentally acknowledging that he shouldn't be so mellow, his nerves didn't act up.

"Right this way~" The tall man opened one of the two gigantic doors, a loud eerie creek sounding from it's rusted hinges.

Jaeseop only just realized that the tall stranger's voice is the same voice that had talked to him before in his "dream."

Jaeseop slowly entered the dark building. As soon as he fully stepped in, the door creeked closed behind him, leaving him in pitch black darkness yet again.

He heard some shuffling behind him...then at the sound of snapping fingers, hundreds of candles lit the room all at once.

Jaeseop felt himself flinch.
What the actual heck just happened?
What is happening right now?
Where even am I?

"No need to start asking a bunch of questions again, everything will be explained when we get to the other students." The tall man told Jaeseop, as if he had just read his mind or something...

Other students?

The tall man led Jaeseop down a long corridor, at the end were two more big doors that matched the building's front doors.

As they creep open slowly, Jaesop could see more and more of what was on the other side of them.

It looked like...a school cafeteria?

A huge contrast from the dark and eerie rest of the building that Jaeseop had just walked through, this room was a decent sized cafeteria that lookes much like the one at his old highschool.

The many tables were empty, all except one in the very far corner.

The tall man started walking towards the table. He turned his hooded head a little and waved his pale hand, signaling for Jaeseop to keep following him.

Jaeseop almost tripped on his own shoes as he scrambled to catch up.

"My students!" The tall man kindly greeted the people at the table with a giddy tone. Some of the people groaned.

"HanHao, you're not supposed to bug us during our break time." One girl groaned without even looking at the tall man, apparently named HanHao.

"He sounds excited. That's not normal, something must be up." A boy mumbled as he rested his head against his fist.