LOSE YOURSELF ─ PTG/NCT AF

001

❐ HOGWARTS CASTLE— NOV. 1
current time; 12:54 a.m

headmaster heechul paced around his study, his frown lines as deep as his thoughts. his pensieve sat on his desk, giving the dim study a bright blue luminance glow. when two knocks sounded he turned to the door, watching professor yesung enter hastily. "is it true? the rumors?"

"that there's a so-called new dark lord trying to rise to power?" heechul nodded while sighing heavily. "come with me," yesung followed heechul slowly. his eyes met the pensieve. silvery wisps of memory floated in the basin, waiting to be watched. "go on."

yesung found himself next to heechul on the astronomy tower. the moon sat at its highest peak, while the stars sparkled a bright white. a skinny pale hand latched itself onto headmaster heechul's wrist. he gripped his wand, acting upon instinct but stopped when he realized it was professor lim yoona, the divination teacher. her eyes were milky white, her expression lost in a trance. her usual soft tone was replaced by a deep mystical voice that wasn't hers.

alone in the world, separated by chance,
sixteen must unite in pairs of two
on the seventh day, brightest moon, darkest night
a fire will come
a harbinger of destruction
only one, with the darkest mind, must come to decide
two fourths, one eighth
only then would the fate of the world
be chosen

yesung lifted his head from the basin, a look of pure confusion reflecting off his features. "i'm not good with fractions. what does that mean?"

"you think i know? let's not forget who thought five times four was twelve," ignoring the disappointed look on yesung's face, heechul stepped over to his drawer. "i don't have the slightest clue who these sixteen students could be but, look out for a student who seems to think in darker ways than others. that could give us a lead."

"and what's that?" he pointed to a ripped piece of parchment protruding from the drawer heechul hovered over.

"yoona dropped it after reciting the prophecy. it's some sort of code. a jumble of numbers i can't decipher."

yesung glanced at the mass amount of numbers. a bunch of zeros and ones with no correlation to anything yoona had given in the prophecy. or so he thought. he bit his bottom lip, analyzing each set of numbers. "did you try a revealing charm?"

"did you try a revealing—" heechul laughed humorously. "of course i did! i'm not headmaster for nothing!" he boasted.

yesung gave him a skeptical look before pulling his wand out from beneath his robes. "aparecium." the numbers began to shift quickly. heechul cleared his throat, looking everywhere except at yesung.

01010100 01110111 01101001 01101110 01110011 00100000 01110000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110111 01100001 01111001

01110100 01100101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101101 01110101 01100111 01100111 01101100 01100101 01100010 01101111 01110010 01101110 01110011 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101110 01101110 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01110111 01101001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100011 01110010 01101111 01110111

"it's a mystery how you've survived this far." yesung mumbled. heechul chose to ignore his words, not in the mood for his usual defensive arguments. "the numbers revealed this."

twins pave the way
test a muggle borns connection with a crow

"twins? muggle-borns and crows?" yesung snapped his fingers, startling heechul. the latter pointed at the words with a look of clarity.