𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐑𝐒

#.. EIGHT

jiseok and jooyeon took a look around the gigantic city. it was purely a coincidence that they met hyeongjun and the queen at the temple before.

"why can't he remember me?" jooyeon asked himself, quite sad about the fact. jiseok remembered the mentioned 'cooler'. wasn't it deadly for firebenders to be in a cold environment?

why would the queen want that upon her own family? then jiseok thought of something else. "why did queen han call hyeongjun a girl?"

jooyeon knew that this question would come. and he found it rather hard to understand either, the story was complicated.

"hyeongjun is the connector of the real world and the spirit world" jooyeon started. "when he was ten, he got incredibly sick. the former king, his father, asked the life spirit for help.

there was no way to cure his old self, his female self. i don't know if you know this, but in the spirit world, there is another version of you, your counterpart.

as hyeongjun's old self was very connected to the spirit world due to being in contact with the life spirit, he has a soulmate. and in order to be functioning normally, one has to meet his soulmate.

but they didn't find the soulmate in time, so hyeongjun's old self died. the life spirit felt bad and decided to send his spirit version to the earth.

princess hyeongji turned into prince hyeongjun. yet because hyeongjun's spirit is missing, the spirit world is out of control.

his soulmate might feel angry, irritated, enraged because his other half is missing. but yeah, then something else happened and something else again but i didn't get it when he explained it to me.

i'm still confused on why he didn't recognize me."

this was a lot of information, jiseok figured. but it made sense. then he thought about the cooler again. "is there a chance that hyeongjun is being tortured?" he asked, stopping to walk. jooyeon stopped, too.

"huh?" jiseok thought about it more. and the more it made sense. "coldness is deadly for firebenders.." the elder muttered.

"it must be traumatic to dodge death... and trauma can erase memory. when and under which circumstances did you meet him?"

jooyeon had to think for a few seconds. "on the funeral of the king and queen, his parents. every leader and king was invited. me, and the three leaders from the remaining water tribes. and the air king.

hyeongjun was the only one my age and i found him crying outside the building after the burial. so we talked.."

jiseok furrowed his brows. that was a normal way to meet each other. why would the queen want him to forget him?

jooyeon wasn't finished with talking. "the queen thought that hyeongjun was responsible for their deaths, as he was taken hostage by the earth soldiers.

so his parents sacrificed themselves for him. and the queen now, wasn't supposed to be the queen. it was supposed to be hyeongjun, but she changed the will.

apparently she needed him to forget about the funeral and the will that was changed without him knowing." "and that's why he forgot you as well."