Horizon | Choi San

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(the chokehold this yunho pic has on me)

It was time to go, late at night after dinner together in which the mood wasn't as cheerful as the previous few days. Gaeul, for one, was the most nervous she had been, and San had to constantly touch her hand to check if her magic was under control.

"You've been playing with your food for an hour now," Wooyoung, who was sitting beside her, pointed out.

"I'm sorry, I'm just not feeling hungry," Gaeul slid her plate away from her, glancing up to notice that everyone was stealing their own nervous glances at her. "I'll be in my room if anyone needs me."

"Gaeul-"

"I'm fine, San," Gaeul smiled at him, squeezing his shoulder. "Please finish up and call me when it's time to go."

It was a clear message to be left alone, yet... each one of them felt like they needed to go after her. After all, at times like these, you rarely wanted to be alone even if you felt like it. San stared at his food- he wasn't feeling the best today either but he was being strong for her sake.

"Do cheer up and let her have some time to herself if you can," Yena said from across the table. "No point sulking right now, San. She's probably feeling scared right now and that's only natural."

San knew that Yena had a point and he reluctantly finished his food, cleaning the table with the rest, sighing as he forced himself not to drop everything right there and then to be next to Gaeul. Gaeul, however, was at the roof, staring as far as she could at the town she used to live in before her life turned upside down. Gaeul couldn't help but smile at the irony of life- she used to think that being a part of the yin-yang bloodline and having to hide her possible affinities for other elemental magics was the worst that could have happened to her. Here she was, with magic that no other faerie had ever possessed in history.

Gaeul scoffed to herself- she still wasn't sure if she had come to terms with her magic. She quite liked the idea of cold fire even though it was probably more dangerous to possess than the 'anti-life' magic. The latter, she still wasn't sure of. But she had a thought stuck in her head ever since San had voiced it out to her a couple of nights ago as they lay in each other's arms.

"If you miss your earth magic or nature magic, you can always use mine. Aren't yin-yang soulmates able to borrow each other's powers?"

That was something that gave her hope, though if she was really going to train her magic, she was sure she wouldn't really be needing earth magic- her magic was dangerous and enough. But the thought that she could still use her original magic with San... it made her ecstatic, and it made her wonder why San, the Prince of Earth, was her soulmate. Perhaps destiny had chosen so- if she had still been normal, she wouldn't have felt much of a difference in her magic other than the strength and range of it heightening since they were both earth magic wielders.

But now... San and Gaeul could make quite possibly the most dangerous pair- at least as dangerous as Yena and Seonghwa, if not more. Gaeul silently prayed she would be able to come to terms with her magic and help the missing faeries who were unfortunately involved in her mess.

She didn't realise how long she had been standing at the edge and watching the lights flickering along the city until she sensed San behind her. She turned and smiled at how he was cautiously approaching, ready to leave her alone if she wished so, but she extended her hand and he took it, sighing as he stood beside her, glancing at her. "What were you thinking?"

"Too many things," Gaeul laughed. "Just trying to sort out my thoughts before I go."

"And did you?" San caressed her hand.