Touch || TXT Yeonbin (TOMORROW X TOGETHER Yeonjun x Soobin)

III || In the Shadows

(If you have any spooky/ dark ambience/ BG music/ etc., now would be the right moment to put it on.)

My head shot around to the left were one of the big cages stood. It wasn't as empty as I had thought. I breathed fast, my heart racing as my eyes met with someone's rather than something's.

Behind the thick, rusty iron bars stood a boy around my age. He had yellowish- blonde hair and was dressed in leathery-black clothing. The parts of his body that were visible, were pale and scarred. The nails of his hands that gripped around the bars were coloured in a deep black.

I took some hasty steps back, away from the cage, tumbling over my own feet and falling to the ground. His dark eyes examined me intensely from top to bottom. He crouched down to get an even better look at me after I've fallen to the ground. It was hard to pinpoint the emotion that was displayed on his face. It was a mixture of interest, alertness and confusion. It was like anything and nothing. But it was enough to spread goosebumps over my whole body, nervousness pounding in my throat.

‚You are new...' the boy said, still staring at me. His eyes almost pierced through my body, it seemed like I could hide nothing from him. I had the feeling that whatever was going on inside me, he would see. His voice cracked slightly, as if not used for a long time.

‚W-who are you?' I asked my voice trembling, like the rest of my limbs did.

‚I don't have a name..' He said sitting down fully now. ‚But you must've one.. Your kind has always one..'

‚My kind?' What was this situation? This can't be real, I must be dreaming.

‚Humans' I looked at him confused. ‚Humans have names, so you must too..'

‚S-Soobin...' I stuttered, though I didn't even know why. Maybe because, I was almost sure this had to be a weird dream, a nightmare. ‚But aren't you.. W-Why are you in this cage?' I asked nervously, not knowing what I should say at all in such a moment.

‚Because there are things that belong inside of a cage.' He said as if it was something obvious. His eyes looked at me intently, scanning me all over.

‚Nothing belongs in a cage, nothing that is alive.' I said moving a bit closer to the cage again. This dream felt so incredibly real.

‚You're different than him.' The boy mumbled darkly. ‚He thinks someone like me belongs in a cage.' His eyes stopped scanning and moved straight up to my wide ones. ‚I can't deny that he has a point... If he wouldn't have put me in here, he would be dead already.'

‚Who are you talking about?' I asked, having a bad feeling. The feeling that I already know who. The fact that make me hope even more that all of this wasn't actually happening.

‚That other human that lives up there..'

‚Taegeum put you in here?' I couldn't believe it. He was like a father to me, he wouldn't do such cruel things. Would he? No no... He wouldn't... he.. it's all just a dream... not real..

‚So that's his name.. he never told me. He never actually talks to me, like you.. but maybe it's better like that. You're lucky that I'm behind bars, though' He sniffed a little, like he caught an interesting scent in the air. ‚I wonder why you aren't'

My eyes widened even more as his eyes glowed up icy blue for a second.

‚What are you?' I asked my voice shaking.

‚Not human..' He said nibbling on his bottom lip, that was dry and split in the middle. Dried, almost black blood sticking to it. ‚I-‚ he jumped up, suddenly alert again. His eyes shot back and forth between the staircase and me. What was wrong? Well everything was obviously wrong about this cellar and this situation.. but..