5: The Flying Palanquin

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Agust D sits on his chair in the room that Tiana was in before being taken away by his brother. The event keeps playing in his head and he tries to come up with a scenario of how he could have prevented it. He recalls the way her dark brown almond-shaped eyes filled with panic when Yoongi pointed his long finger at her. Her heart-shaped lips formed a frown as Namjoon snatched her from the ground and carried her away like a sack of potatoes. 

"I shouldn't have brought her here," he mumbles to himself.

Agust D runs a hand through his dark locks out of frustration.

Young-ho and Hajun come into the front room while laughing and bumping into each other's shoulders. Their laughing dies down when they see Agust D looking troubled as he sits in his chair. He leans over and clasps his hands together as he looks ahead of himself.

"AD? Are you good?" Hajun asks.

Agust D doesn't say anything.

Hajun and Young-ho take a step closer.

"Ah, Agust?" Young-ho starts. "Are you-"

"Aish," Agust D mumbles under his breath.

His random outburst startles Hajun and Young-ho. Hajun jumps back and flails his arms up. He knocks Young-ho in the head, almost sliding his black and white bandana off. Young-ho kisses his teeth at Hajun and raises his arm as if he's going to hit him back. Hajun flinches again before apologizing.

The duo looks at Agust with confused and startled looks on their faces. Once they recover from the scare, they get closer to Agust D to ask him what's going on.

"Yoongi came by and took Tiana like she was freaking cattle or something," Agust D responds.

"AH! The King came by?!" Hajun yells.

Agust D points at his door which lays on the ground.

"Yep, he entered our home like usual," Agust D says in a too calm of a voice.

Young-ho shoves his hands in his black jean pockets.

"Well, shii happens," he says. "AH!"

Young-ho clenches the back of his head and glares at Ae-Ri who winks at him.

"What are you gonna do, AD?" She asks.

She rests her elbow on Hajun's shoulder.

"Fix my door," Agust responds.

Ae-Ri rolls her eyes and looks at the calm-looking man. Despite his calm-looking exterior, she knows that on the inside, he's freaking out. Agust is good at hiding his emotions, but not good enough where it could get past Ae-Ri.

"No, with Tiana," Ae-Ri says. "You're just gonna let the King take her like that?"

AD turns his head to face Ae-Ri and gives her a crooked smile.

"I just met her. The King can take her," Agust says.

"Agust," Ae-Ri says in a firm voice.

Agust D gets up and walks up to the entrance of his house and over his fallen door. When he makes it past the entrance, he gives Ae-Ri a slight wave before heading down the steps. Ae-Ri watches Agust D head towards the direction of the forest with a frown on her face. 

"He may act like he doesn't care, but I know he does," she thinks before turning around to head back to the back of the house.

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Agust strolls through the forest with a smug look on his face as he searches for the invention that the King demanded he takes out of a tree. He's not sure what this invention may look like, but he assumes it may be the "flying palanquin" Tiana was describing.

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