Diary Entry - Eundeok Married Life (Baekhera) [COMPLETED]

Tamra at last

'Now darling, be kind to me, don't make it so- OUCH!'

(Soondeok tightens the knot)

'Damn it Deok ah! I can't breathe!'

'Just stand still already, Oppa, we need to make sure this thing doesn't fall off. Your life depends on-'

'My life depends on it, I know I know, for the 30th time you said this. Honey, you may as well make me wear an armor for all I care. Gosh! It's heavier than it looks. I can't breathe-'

'Oppa! Don't move!'

(Eun examines the piece of fabric Soondeok's put on him)

'Deok ah, I'm sweating already! This feels like leather...wait, is this...two layers? You're making me wear leather on a hot summer day and with TWO layers?!'

'Yeah, and there's a sac inside.'

'What's inside the sac?'

'Blood. Animal blood.'

'Animal blood? You've got to be joking!'

'I'm not, it'll do a marvelous job if it doesn't come off, it saved many of my father's men when they're in service, helping them fake dead...now, last thing before I forget. Here, keep it safe.'

(Soondeok gives Eun a pill wrapped in paper, Eun brings it close to his nose and smells it)

'Smells extremely bitter to me.'

'It's poison after all, Oppa, of course it's bitter.'

'P...poison?'

'One that's good enough to knock you out in less than 3 minutes but not enough to take your life for real.'

'You're not telling me to take this stinky pill, right?'

'That's exactly what I'm suggesting, Oppa.'

'EW! I'm not putting this in my mouth.'

'Oh yes you are, if you want to live.'

(Eun stares at the package in his palm uneasily)

'So...it'll just bring me to the heaven gates but not let me go pass them?'

'It depends on how well you perform at your last moments, you know, to impress the people and persuade them that they've successfully killed you.'

'Oh I don't know, I'm not trained for this kind of things, Deok ah.'

'Just do what you always do.'

'Which is?'

'Act. You acted like a stupid, clumsy prince for most of your life, I don't see why you can't pull this off. Now don't swallow it unless you have to, keep it below your tongue beforehand so others won't see...it's not too big, it won't be too obvious...and...yeah, that's pretty much it.'

'Deok ah, what if hyung does something to me when I'm unconscious? You know...like...what if they behead us or hang us or burn us after I...lose my consciousness? We won't be able to fight back.'

(Soondeok steps forward and whispers softly)

'Then you'll be granted a peaceful and painless death, my dear husband. We're no longer given the luxury to pick a road to travel on, we simply travel on the road we've been forced to take.'

'More like forced to wear-'

(Soondeok slaps him on the chest)

'Oh Oppa just stop complaining about your clothes already!'