Anemoia | Yeonjun

Yesterday

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01 • 04 • 2008, 4p.m.

A spring day in a wheat field.

A random apple tree amidst the seemingly endless wheat field. It seems pretty out of line. Odd.

Beneath the shade of the tree, a grave. A grave with the name Choi Eun-tak, the mother of a devil.

Alongside the grave, a sleeping fennec. It looked like it finally got the peace it was always deprived of.

It spent most of its day there on a daily basis, no matter what. May it be amidst rain, snow, storm, it would always visit the grave, even though the grave was one belonging to a human.

Today, it's sleep was intervened by the sound of footsteps. Rather aimlessly confident footsteps of a child.

'What's a human doing here? What an idiot. This place is haunted and this idiot just walks in here like it's nothing. Does he have a death wish?' the fox thinks to itself. It ignored the human approaching it. It didn't want anything to do with humans.

The human came and sat under the tree, back rested against the trunk, purposely close to the fox.

The fox woke up and stretched and left. It was rather small, like a cub. The human followed it for a while, the chase ending at the same place it started. The boy took a bit of a distance from it with a contemplating expression.

"Well, I might be a bit cuckoo for even thinking about it, but... Could I talk to you for a while?" The boy suddenly spoke hesitantly.

'At least he's aware how mental he sounds.' the fox thought, before nodding.

"Wait, you understand me...? Rad... Anyways. I'm Yeonjun. Choi Yeonjun." The boy spoke while kneeling to the height of the fox.

The fox nodded in acknowledgment and took a few steps backward, not giving the impression that it's scared, but simply doesn't want to be too close to the human.

"I'm future Prince." Yeonjun spoke again.

The fox took note of this.

"And you are?" he asked the fox, expecting an answer.

There was a long awkward silence before Yeonjun spoke again, "Oh, sorry, I forgot you can't speak."