GUNS AND KNIVES

02: Why are you here?

"What- how- why-?"

Shuhua got up and dusted herself off. "How do you know who I am?"

I rolled my eyes. "Do you not remember me?"

Shuhua blinked a few times and stared at me. "Who are you?" she asked. I facepalmed myself. What the heck... Shuhua pushed my shoulder. "Jeon Jungkook, why would you think I forgot you? But why are you here?"

"You know what? I was actually going to ask the same thing. Why are you here?"

"You go first."

We were both surprised we said that at the same time. I gave the teensiest chuckle, and said, "I was trying to retrieve that map you have in your hand."

Shuhua tilted her head. "Why this map?"

"And I guess you also forgot I am a mafia who works for all of these people," I said. "Oh yeah," she said. "But why do you need the map?"

"So we can find the guy who is going to destroy the government."

Shuhua looked at me with wide eyes. "Who?" she asked me wildly. I leaned over and whispered his name in her ear; it was possible someone could be watching us- and listening.

"Wow, that's so weird- I got the map for the same reasons, and targeting the same person too..."

"So weird! What a coincidence..."

I looked at the map in her left hand, then at her. "Should we open it?" Shuhua nodded. We both sat on the ground, and she slowly rolled it onto the surface. We looked at each other with wide eyes before we looked. "Aigoo, these people really like codes," I commented. She nodded. "Yeah, no kidding."

I picked up the map and brought it closer to my face. "I can barely see this much in the dark- and my goggles only do so much..."

Shuhua searched her pocket and found a match. She stroked it on a tree branch and the match came to life. I lifted the map, and she held the flame near it. "No one told us it was this complex..." She squinted carefully. "Wait."

"What?"

She scanned the paper carefully. "I... I think this is morse code! Do you have a notebook or something?"

"I thought you'd be the one with a notebook."

"Do you have a notebook?"

"Yeah, let me get it," I replied, and I rummaged in my pack, and I found it in the back pocket. I opened it up. "Okay, let's see..."

She told me the letters as I wrote them down.

"Now what's it say?"

"It says..."

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