"Oh, little girl, how naive you must be..."
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Ji rae walked in circles for what seemed like hours in the circle room, with the circle table and circle chairs and a circular door that was locked firmly. In contrast to the room, the blue and white checkered tiles gleamed under the circle lightbulb.
On the table there was a bottle of soda but nothing else which suggested how she got here.
She could not remember who she was before she came here, or where she was from
She did not know where she was right now and why she was here.
The only thing she remembered was her name,
Kim Ji rae.
She did not know if she had been here for seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months.
Time dragged on in an endless loop, not acknowledging her plight.
Thirst getting the better of her, she opened the bottle of what she hoped was soda and and poured the clear, fizzy liquid down her parched throat.
Wiping her lips in satisfaction, she placed the glass bottle on the circle table in the circle room .
She sat on the circle chair and stared at the circle door hoping, that it might magically open and someone will save her from whatever had befallen her.
As if someone had heard her wish,
She heard a soft click, and the blue circle door swung open.
Inside was nothing but darkness
and a hand reached out
almost white, perhaps it was gloved but she could not tell
and then she heard a voice, presumably from the stranger whose hand was outstretched towards her,
"Come along now, we wouldn't want to keep him waiting do we?"
She grinned
and took his hand.
