Protector from Afar ✔️

Chapter 27 - My body is a cage

A/N: Trigger warning: death scene.

Chapter 27
My body is a cage

||: It once was so easy; breathe in, breathe out

But at the foot of this mountain, I only see clouds :||Sorrow – Sleeping At last

"You're a dragon," Hyunjin said.

A deafening silence fell over the room. I blinked. Why did this claim confuse me? It was no secret, but I never rubbed it under anyone's nose. In this world there were humans, demons, ghosts, mystical beings. Quite normal. So why did it feel like Hyunjin had revealed my biggest secret?

"Who told you that?"

My pulse accelerated. I took a step back, my right hand automatically flew to the hilt of my sword. Defensively, Hyunjin raised his arms.

"How long have you been knowing that?" I inquired.

"For quite a while," Felix replied. He looked briefly at Hyunjin. "But we didn't tell anyone else, we're the only ones who know that."

"We're not stupid, some things were quite obvious," Chan threw into the room.

"Are you expecting something now?"

"No," Changbin said as if shot out of a pistol. "If it were up to me, I wouldn't talk a single word with you. But you're important to my friends and they really try to help you, and all you do is break Jeongin's heart."

His words were sharp and precise and hit the right place.

"Changbin, what to the fuck?" Jeongin said, tapping his forehead at him.

"I'm not here so you can guilt trip me."

"Everyone calm down now and take a deep breath," Felix intervened, shooting Chan and Changbin an angry gaze.

Minho raised a hand. "When you were here last time, wounded and drunk, you said that-"

"That I want it to finally stop. I know. I was drunk, not comatose."

"Whatever happened," Felix spoke a little louder and thus attracted attention, "we won't force you to talk about it."

Changbin groaned annoyed and threw his arms into the air. "We won't get any further with that. Fine, nobody forces her to do anything. But with understanding we've reached an impasse now."

In my thoughts I agreed with Changbin. He wanted something to happen. See results. With his choice of words, he held up a mirror to me.

"Something happened last summer..." These few words were enough, and my hands started to tremble. "Something happened that I can't tell you."

I remembered Li Min Ai's gift. With one hand I reached into the neckline of my sweater and pulled out a long delicate chain, where the coin with the square hole hung. The coin dangled back and forth while I held the chain up. The characters shimmered, looking alive. A new character appeared between 'people' and 'sharing'.

记忆 - memory.

"But I can show you."

"What is that?" Hyunjin asked, with narrowed eyes he inspected the coin.

"With this I can show you my memory. If you want that."

Hyunjin looked at his friends, waiting. Shrugging of shoulders and thumbs up. Changbin looked as if he would much rather prefer to be somewhere else, but didn't express any objections.