Meridian ◈ Seungjin

Final ◈ Naberius

They walked along the usual patrol path.

Underneath the lampposts illuminating the dark shade of the pouring night, chasing the shadows from their path and revealing the secrets scurrying between the metal warehouses and storage containers kept dormant at this location until they could be relocated to their proper destination. This was a pitstop, nothing more; A transitional area between mind and matter, dream and reality, especially when the shadows drew longer and played manipulating mind tricks on the two abandoned. Left to fend themselves against their own jolting fears. The jerking notions of what may command the shadows to crawl. This may have been a transitional point, a liminal space, but the cargo was still precious to the people awaiting their arrival. Any trespassers and solicitors must be promptly caught. Promptly punished.

Including Seungmin and Hyunjin as they wormed around the warehouses of the port docks, their footsteps light and soundless as the soles of their shoes jogged along the cement paths puddling with the downpour of rain. Their hands did nothing to shield themselves from the water, washing them away. The latter of the two led them around the storage facility with a strange familiarity; The paths and routes he prompted Seungmin to follow him down assured, as if he practiced the concealed routes weaving between the large steel buildings countless times, as if he charted and mapped the weaving paths in his fevered dreams, as if he knew where laid what and how long it would take to arrive.

The vampire's shoulders were rounded off.

He stepped with an unbecoming insistence. His path not stopping or waiting for anything.

Seungmin quietly followed him. He watched Hyunjin's back, the rain pelting down to soak into the white button up of their uniform, droplets running and washing the stains of blood in his collar a vibrant color. In other places where the blood died, the pouring rain mixed and revoked the flecks of red into the sliding blood they were meant to be. Elsewhere, the white shirt clung to his skin. Binding to his muscles. Sticking, latching on disgustingly to the rigid muscles underneath as they tensed and moved beneath the fabric, their movement as pressing as the hurried march of their owner through the walkways of the port dock warehouses. The vampire hadn't said much since they left the alleyway either.

The rain reflected the falling light of the lampposts above them, the scattered droplets dancing as erratically as fireflies in the night underneath the pouring light.

Seungmin grabbed his uniform. As he bit the inside of his cheek, ensuring the gesture was received as nothing more than a blank expression on the outside, he tugged a lightly surprised Hyunjin off the walkway and to a certain warehouse towering above them. His neck crooned as he stared up at the haunting building; Metal exterior of copper melt rusted at hinges and polished on the walls, the large iron doors stapled at the top groaning with growls as the wind knocked them about, the rain sheering down the walls in sloughing sheets. With it, the rain pulled down the warehouse. It pulled it to the depths of the world, cursing and bleeding it raw, the faintest hints of the pooled liquid still stained at the foot of the building.

Seungmin silently prayed to himself. He let the vampire go as he told, blankly, "This is it."

"Alright," Hyunjin drawled with a reluctance shoved into his dying tone. After a few more moments of hesitation, his palm met the heavy rust iron door, beginning to nearly shove the metal out of the way to open it's mouth wider. Wider, and wider. He popped his head between the slight opening of the warehouse doors, the rest of his body slipping in afterwards as he commented to the human, "Watch your step. It's a bit dark."

Seungmin nodded a wordless reply. After he was certain the vampire was completely within the warehouse, the human slipped through the narrow slot of the doors to follow after. The light pushed him, flooding into the warehouse after him. The gentle glows from the pelting world outside offered them reassurance in the strained dark, the absence of illumination forcing him to narrow his eyes and rub them gently. Thankfully the glow from outside provided him with enough light to see Hyunjin shoving his hands in his pockets and spinning around the empty warehouse, gaze trained up to the tall ceiling of the warehouse as he went farther. Farther. Farther. Leaving Seungmin behind at the door as he disappeared into the background of the warehouse to inspect it's sturdiness.