Krampus [Book Two Of King-Queen, Jester Series](CYJ)

15 :: Displaying thy rictus,switchel in hand, the demon is on thy land

"Displaying thy rictus,switchel in hand
The demon is on thy land"

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Time is the continuous sequence of events that take place in apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, to the future.

No, today there was no philosophical explanation of what time is. Time is like a tale, a folktale, that no matter how hard you try to drown, it doesn't. It survives, age through ages.

Time sounds like a mere word until you're sitting for a mathematics examination and you still have three questions worth 5 marks in a test of 80 marks with only half and hour to answer them, recheck your paper and solve again if there's any error that you happen to realise at the last moment. Then, yes of course, we understand what time is. Or how important time is.

Throughout different eras in history, people have only cared for anything when that ended or was about to end. Examination time ends, sure, but time doesn't really. Yet it's at that hour that students realise had they not slothed at the beginning, they could have completed the test.

Don't worry, it's a personal experience to more than 98.6% of the population. Yeonjun and Eunhye weren't an exception to this, just like us as well.

Heaven knew when those 4 hours of travel had ended. It was so long ago yet so close by. The clock struck midnight when Yeonjun started unloading the boot of his car. For the time, they were staying at a lodge near the beach, Yeonjun had rented for a hefty price. It was far away from the scenic beauty of Busan thus, away from people and interruption. 6 days since Soobin went missing.

Eunhye was the first one to enter the building. A one storeyed house with two large bedrooms, a single shared bathroom, a spacious kitchen and an entrance hall. The furniture inside was minimalist, the least to say. On the walls, the pseudo wooden texture had ripped off. She concluded that, that was the only thing required to be renovated had anyone thought of buying this house for a home.

She made her way through the entrance lounge and cleared up the minute mess around, letting Yeonjun put done the suitcase and her rucksack on the floor. How large could the hall be? About the size of doctor's chamber.

"Done." Yeonjun wiped off the sweat beads on his forehead as he placed the last suitcase out. It was cooler in Busan than it was in Seoul. The warmth in his body and the exterior cold kept his body in such a balance that he wanted to sneeze but he couldn't sneeze.

"Hey! Place that duffle bag with care, please. It has my lucky charm inside." Yeonjun stopped to look at Eunhye once and then gently nodded as he followed her request. That duffle bag was heavy. What was her lucky charm that weighed so much? Food, maybe.

"So, what do we do now?" Eunhye took to a chair on Yeonjun's left and asked, crossing her legs over the other.

"I don't know." Yeonjun also sat down on the floor near her feat.