Can myth become reality? Can something that is only told in books take shape in everyday life? Can reality change from one day to the next? What can happen when two different worlds collide?
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More details in the Introduction chapter.
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More time than necessary had passed and Lee Heeseung hadn't come home yet. He didn't finish his morning walk and didn't buy breakfast for his brother. His way had taken an unexpected turn when, instead of sitting at a university's desk following the art's history lesson, he found himself seated in a waiting room at the hospital. His heart jumped back up into his throat after escaping from his rib cage.
As soon as the ambulance he called arrived at the beach, two paramedics not only took immediate care of the girl he retrieved under the bunch of debris, but also of him, despite he didn't have the same need for assistance and insisted to stop them. They came up to him, trembling and clinging to the girl's body, urgently brought in for medical examinations and to check whether she had suffered serious damage, and to try to understand the cause behind it. He needed someone to inform him about how she was doing to stop the growing anxious feeling who planted its roots in his stomach. Heeseung huddled around the blanket that the two paramedics wrapped around his shoulders, along with a jumper a passing nurse had been careful to make him wear, otherwise he would've risked catching a more than unpleasant cold and a fever.
Lost as he was in his deep thoughts, it took him a while to realize his phone was vibrating nonstop inside the bag. He hurried to pick it up, while preventing the blanket to fall. Heeseung read the contact's name written on the screen. It was Joshua, who was probably wondering where the hell he had been all that time. He brought the phone to his ear and began to nervously bite his bottom lip.
"Heeseung?! Can you please enlighten me where are you?" — The ideas of the younger brother were confirmed listening to his voice drilling his eardrum — "If you were willing to go at university before coming home, you should've told me, don't you think? I'm even getting late waiting for you to come home, what is taking you so long—"
"I'm at the hospital, Joshua." — He heavily sighed, throwing his head back and resting it against the pale white wall. Spitting this out, Heeseung didn't have the right tact to give him such information, nearly causing his brother to faint, whom he swore he heard snap to his feet.
"A-at the hospital?! What have you done? No, forget about it; I'm coming, don't worry. I'll be there as soon as I can." The concern in Joshua's voice made him barely chuckle. To know that he will always be there to worry and take care of him, just like a parent does with their child, sent a wave of warmth to his chest and gave him another reason to thank him for his precious presence in his life.
"No Joshua, I'm fine." — Heeseung closed his eyes and lifted his feet on the chair, curling up on himself — "I had a little setback."
There was a moment of silence. No word was spoken out. The latter weirded out to the point that he pulled the phone away from his face to look if the line went dead, but it wasn't the case. The call was still open and the timer of seconds at the top of the screen was going on. "Josh? Are you still there? You didn't accidentally turn on mute?"
