Sempiternal: •D.E.A(live).D• || BOOK 4#

26. All taken

"Very well, to the north found two hordes, which are especially large. Maybe more than a hundred and fifty Yagtalja" Seonghwa places a pair of chess pieces. Two black horses. "In the northwest there is a buildup of about twenty, but they might end up joining these two." he places a black pawn.

"Are they still advancing north?" asks Namjoon and Seonghwa denies.

"The problem is that they seem to be coming this way. I asked the lookout not to retreat until the horde is gone, avoid being pursued" Namjoon nods, Hongjoong clicks his tongue, placing the black king piece in a very close location to the south. "Unfortunately..."

"The one that's closest literally filled a crater and is coming out more and more because of the terrain fault" Hongjoong counters. "We're not going to be able to deal with this. Not if it notices us. It's... Immense according to the lookout. I ordered it to come before it kept growing and it arrived safely fortunately."

"To the east and west there are also three hordes, but they are much smaller." Seonghwa places bishops.

"And to the southeast was seen a pack of dogs. About twenty or twenty-five."

"Who saw it?" asks Taehyung quizzically, of that one he hasn't seen anyone and is in theory, the closest. Hongjoong shakes his head.

"One of the dogs saw it."

They are awkwardly silent. Yoongi gets a shiver, gets up and walks out of there, before forming too many ideas in his head. Jungkook watches him go and looks at the map again. They are almost surrounded. He can't imagine how Yeou routed all that. He must have run into at least one of those obstacles. He knows he is alive because this morning they talked on the radio and he said he was on his way to Seoul, already far away from Chuncheon. Jin can't resist letting go of his annoyance:

"They're not supposed to withstand the cold and this place is the damn north pole why are there so many all of a sudden?"

"If you tell me they're evolving I'm going to go to that corner and cry." Hoseok warns, pointing at Namjoon. He shakes his head, crosses his arms and bites his cheeks for a moment.

"No, something else must happen. They are also too large accumulations. Maybe they're like this to keep warm and forage for food. They are animals after all" He theorizes bringing a hand to his chin, "or the same thing that binds the animals, is what makes them gather. The fuss of a random Yeontan draws the attention of even the stones."

"Your theory is that someone wants to kill us using giant hordes that they won't be able to handle later." sums up Jin and Namjoon nods.

"At the moment that's all we've got... We'll turn off the stove earlier from now on" Yeosang starts to write down what will be the list of errands for the day. "We will also suspend concerts, movie nights and just as dinner will be earlier, so will breakfast. We should avoid being noticed as much as possible."

"You wrote down everything?" asks Hongjoong to Yeosang who looks around.

"Did I what?"

Namjoon drops his head, not holding his laughter. Yeosang's absent-mindedness is too funny. He wrote down everything, but even he didn't realize he did it.

"Add a general meeting. We should give notice of this." asks Jin and Yeosang nods, clumsily writing it down at the bottom of the sheet.

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Yoongi goes up to the third floor, being that the bathroom on the second floor is occupied. Jungkook finds himself practicing boxing with the huge crowd he is now teaching. The good part for them, is that Jungkook is stranded here until further notice. Hoseok is also teaching his classes, resumed about a week ago thanks to being able to relinquish his supervising duties to Yoongi.