Once Upon a Human!

Snipet 4

Inspired by: My Cat, Raon by chloetyranny

(https://archiveofourown.org/works/46112380/chapters/116081110)

"Hey, I...'ve been meaning to ask..."

Yoo Jonghyuk stares at the blue that hold vast sky in his eyes.

"...why're you so fixated on Cale?"

The large, warm scaly hand stops patting the sleeping red-haired boy in his lap, as his expression turns into one that almost looks like expecting for the regressor to ask him.

Raon smiles bitterly. Looking at the small child in his embrace.

Sleeping peacefully with both his beloved people by his side.

"I...once had a Baba too."

Yoo Jonghyuk's eyes trembled softly, looking at the figure in front of him looking so fatigued and in misery.

Raon heard a small gasp. But he ignored it, sunken in the memories of red.

Kim Dokja was dumbfounded.

A story that's never been told is unfolding right in front of his eyes. No, ears exactly. He was stunned that his feet were glued to the earth. Prompting him to hear Raon next sentences behind the small thin wall separating them.

"My Baba is weak. He is so weak that I called him Weak Human."

Raon chuckles. Remembering a back so wide and strong. Protecting him and his siblings.

"But, in the face of adversity, my Baba is the strongest of all."

A figure that sometimes looks thin and lonely.

His Baba.

"My Baba, with the way he is, he is kind, admittingly, people follow him left and right."

You Jonghyuk shook at the glitters of pride and happiness radiating from the blue eyes.

"In times of misery, where disasters wreak havoc, we're the happiest. Simply being with Baba...made us safe and sane."

Raon patted the little redhead when he seemed to whine in his sleep, spouting little incomprehensible bubbly noise.

Perhaps, to content with his sleep.

Raon crinkles his eyes. Forming a crescent that tug at Yoo Jonghyuk's heart. Seeing two people he's been searching, alive and well in front of him.

Especially his baby.

The soft feeling nesting in his heart, however, was popped by Raon in the next sentence.

"Baba however, he's still human...with a weak body holding through monstrous battles that limit his lifespan."

The atmosphere changes. Happiness seeping out, with cold and pain filling the place.

"We try our best to save Baba. Whispering hopes and words into Baba's ears, saying he will survive. I, being immatures myself, threatened him, if he were to leave me behind...I will destroy the world into dust."

Raon looked at his hand.

"...and Baba, he just smiled. Saying that I shouldn't worry about this and leave it to the adults."