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Once I finally spotted some of the people who'd arrived - I broke down. I fell to my knees in desperation... my eyes started watering as I heard someone out of breath behind me, a hand coming down to pat my back, rubbing calming circles onto it.

"Schhh, calm down love - we'll take it one step at the time, kay?"

"Mhm"

We both stood up, him helping me along the way since my body was feeling abnormally weak at that moment.

"Do you want to go closer? To see if it's really them? You can say no - and I'll take you to my brother's hut again" he said in his deep voice, which was enough to calm me down to function properly again.

"I want to go see them... if its them" I whispered, to which he simply nodded understandingly, leading me towards the new people.

As we neared these humans... I quickly understood that it was only two people there, not an actual whole clan... which shouldn't have surprised me, but it did and it made my heart skip a beat... and obviously not in a good way.

When I was close enough to study their figures, my eyes raking over their appearance - I could swear my heart stopped for just a moment...

A girl with white hair, although muddied over with dirt and sand, but I knew those locks anywhere...

I glanced to Taehyung beside me - before mentioning to get even closer and he obliged, supporting me all the way.

"Hwasa?" I spoke quietly, not really trusting my own voice to come out clear - but the girl's head spun around by my words... her entire face lighting up by seeing me...

She started running towards me in high speed, stopping just in front before engulfing me in a tight hug.

"Hi little brother" she sighed into my hair, both our arms holding onto each other as if we were afraid it was all just a dream...

"It's me, I'm safe" I spoke into her shoulder, before slightly letting go only to look back at Tae, who'd been waiting for us to somewhat finish with our reunion.

"Taehyung, this is my older sister - she's called Hwasa"

"Princess, I could see your resemblance from a mile away" he commented as he hugged my side lightly, my cheeks heating up ever so slightly, but my thoughts got interrupted by my sibling...

"Princess?" she repeated the nickname and my whole face went beat red.

"Ugh... right... I" mumbling incoherent words, my sentence coming out incomplete as I tried looking around me for inspiration... "Who else is with you?" I changed the topic and she crossed her arms over her chest, hip jutted out in an unimpressed manner.

"Hm?" she questioned, eyebrows shooting up as if she saw right through me, which she probably did.

"I asked who else survived?" I repeated myself and she sighed "You mean that you're changing the subject?"

"N-no, really... I wanna know who else survived" I mumbled, holding onto Tae for some form of mental help and she rolled her eyes, but pointed towards a tall figure with their back towards us.

"Moonbin" she replied and I felt my heart drop... both in a good and bad way...

Moonbin was a great friend of mine, he was always there for me... but that was also the problem - he was always there. I could never be alone in the bear clan, they didn't trust me to be alone... because they believed I'd escape south - rightfully so, but I still didn't agree with their ways.