Legend [YEONBIN] ✓

seventy-three ; soobin

I couldn’t breathe. It felt like the light of the moon was burning my skin. And my mother’s words made my head spin.

This couldn’t be right. This story I’d never heard, but it felt so familiar I ached.

When I left your mother, there was a fight and you were hurt. Detective Hae had said that to me and I’d thought he meant something petty, a dispute between spouses. Not attempted murder.

My world became awash in fog as she remembered my dream. The running water, the flooding bathroom. And I finally saw what was inside. An infant with skin so pale it was blue. The reason I was afraid of water. Because it had already tried to kill me once.

My head hurt from the memory. There was a shuffle of movement behind me, and I whipped around. Detective Hae stood there, his face shrouded in shade.

“I wish you hadn’t heard that.”

Pain cracked through my skull and I fell into dark.