ENVISAGED

4

It has been a week since he got back from the island. Today he just got released from confinement at Ulleung's only hospital and now he chose to spend his remaining time strolling downtown of the island before he and his family travel back to Seoul at the afternoon.

Until now he still can't understand what exactly happened back there in the island. He is still wondering why Lea pushed him off the cliff. Did she wanted him dead? If that's the case, she wouldn't have had helped him of his wound anymore. But why she didn't wait for the rescue team with him and instead pushed him off? Didn't she want to go? Yato has a lot of unanswered questions but sadly, no one can answer even just one of them.

When he woke up already in hospital 3 days ago, he immediately asked her mother about Lea, but she said he was the only one found in that island. When he mentioned about the men he and Lea saw, she said that there is no one possibly living in that island as it is too small and isolated. That was what most of the people answered him as well when he tried asking other people, doubting his mother's opinion as they were not from that island to begin with.

His mom suggested that maybe it was just all a dream, after all, he was unconscious for four days after he was found by the rescuers. It turned out his head bumped into a rock in the water when he fell from the cliff, adding to his previous wound. Since the doctors didn't found any serious injury in his head aside from the wound, she let him left the hospital and just continue tending his wound at home.

His train of thoughs was cut off when the ringtone of his father's phone that his mother told him to bring with him started ringing. Since he lost his phone during the typhoon, he has no choice but to borrow his father's phone for now.

After reading the name of the caller, he tapped the answer button and greeted, "Yes, mom?"

"Where are you? We'll be leaving after 4 hours. Be sure to come back after an hour before that," his mother reminded for the 5th time.

"Yes. Yes, I got it, mom. I'll be back soon," he answered, slightly bored as it is his 5th time answering her now.

After his accident, his mother started treating him like he is a 5 year old, always reminding him what to do. If he was to be honest, he's already irritated of her constant reminders but he knows she's just worried of him, after all he went to a deadly situation and she had nothing to do but to wait for the reports of the rescuers, that is why he's trying his best to understand his mother for now.

Nevertheless, it is the least of his concerns now. He can't accept that Lea was just a dream. He knows she was real, she has to be real. No matter how many people will tell him that Lea and the other people in that island were just part of his long dream, he believe otherwise. There must be a reason why they can't find Lea as well as the other people in that island and he intends to find it out.

Continuing his walk, he decided to head straight to the pier and paid for a ticket for Sightseeing Boat which covers a trip around the coast of Ulleungdo for 3 hours. He's not sure, but he thought maybe he can find some informations from this trip. Sitting at the front row, he only waited for 10 minutes before the boat finally set off from the shore.

Their first destination was the different rock formations in the coastline of Ulleungdo. Listening to the old woman who served as their tour guide and who's explaining almost everything they pass by, he found out that Ulleungdo is part of the group of islets or small islands in the east, as well as know for being the largest. There are two other bigger islets, the Jukdo and the Gwaneundo. The rest are just purely rock formations such as the ones they stopped by on their first destination.

When they started to head to their second destination, Yato's interest perked up as he thought the island they're heading to seems familiar to him. He wasn't sure, but he got the feeling that it is the island he was at a week ago-with Lea.