Imperial Residence
Submerged in the warm tub of water, in the muffle of sounds, past memories surged in like a strong wave. Specifically of the day, Dan Hwa's mother met the calamity of her life.
Her body felt buoyant as all her sensations and consciouses converged to her mother's broken words resonating in her ears.
"Dan-ie, it's d-angerous!"
Once again the ghastly blares of the catastrophe fueled her agitated nerves in a hysterical fashion. The earlier calm film of water now appeared to choke her down as she flapped her limbs in struggles for air.
Her feet landing on the base of the tub in one of those frantic movements, she was plunged free to ultimately breathe out of the water. Her heart pulsating violently.
She blinked her eyes to clear her vision and wiped her face off the excess dripping bathwater, taking long leaps of air. Her body in light shivers, Dan Hwa tried to process the last few minutes.
How she was unconsciously trying to drown herself, how she laid completely defenseless underwater. It was all too daunting to fathom in the right senses.
She felt terrified. Terrified to live in her own body anymore for how unpredictable it has become. For how self destructive it was turning to be. And how formidable influence it had on her conscious.
But not long late, Dan Hwa deciphered a mirror image of herself seated across the bathtub. Unlike herself, more bold and devoid of any fear-to mention the contrasts.
"Are you blaming me right now?" It laughed at her, "That's funny."
Dan Hwa kept her perplexed silence unable to comprehend the sight.
"I am the one helping you, because you hesitant little soul is too coward to do the deed. And now you fear 'me'?"
It seemed as if the body and the soul of Dan Hwa were staged against each other. The wounded soul wanted to escape its torment and afflictions by leaving the body of Dan Hwa. However, without the soul, the human body had no existence and neither did the soul without a body, in this realm.
While with its pure and dewy nature, it could not afford to leave Dan Hwa to her end and wander aimless in this foreign land unguided and unknown. The body then volunteered to free the soul for it seemed the best it could do, not knowing that the grim reaper would not arrive to escort the soul to the hereafter before Dan Hwa's fated hour of death counted in.
"I will free you soon."
Even more frightened, Dan Hwa stumbled out of the tub to escape the very confrontation. But a comment came across from her mirror image halting her steps.
"See. You are a coward."
Dan Hwa breathed heavy rather in an ire than in complete fear. She snapped at the image with a scrowl.
Dan Hwa : SHUT UP!
She clenched tight on her white bathrobe looking towards the empty tub, only to find no one there.
Was it a hallucination? -Dan Hwa doubted and exited the bathroom immediately after.
She simply fled the situation and dressed herself warm. Her phone flashed the number of Doctor Ban that she typed in from his business card.
She called him.
But no words could fuse out of the castle of her mouth. Dan Hwa was reluctant to sound the reason behind her call. The psychiatrist's concerned alarm grabbed her attention back to the phone.
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