New World | SOOKAI

Chapter 25

Yeonjun stepped back from me, his fingertips wrapping around the edge of his chin as he looked at me thoughtfully in the shirt he had dressed me in.

"Hmm... yeah, I think this will work. You're not so much a 'little' Yeonjun as I first thought. Your proportions are a bit bigger than mine in places, which means.." he trailed off, looking to the stack of pants behind him.

"We'll need to go with something with a bit of stretch to it.."

He dug through the pile and then threw a folded square of leather at me. I blinked down at the pants, unsure of his decision.

"Uh... leather? Really?"

"Trust me. They'll suit you!"

I unfolded them, letting them fall down to their full length and still seriously doubted his choice. He walked around the room, searching for a few other bits as I got dressed. As much as I doubted Yeonjun, the lining of the pants certainly was soft, much more comfortable than I would have guessed they would be.

Yeonjun was then throwing a bright red leather belt at me, I caught it with ease with my newfound accuracy in hand-eye coordination.

"Put that on."

I threaded it through the belt loops at my side and as I was distracted, Yeonjun approached. He moved fast, his hands reaching up to my right ear and I felt a small, itchy feeling and something now hanging from it.

Yeonjun just grinned at me, laughing as he saw me try to work out what had just happened. I tried pulling at the earring he had placed upon me but noticed it wasn't coming off.

"Did you just.. Pierce my ear?" I was surprised at the lack of pain from it.

"Yup!" he smiled simply, unphased. "I needed to add something red to match your belt!"

I laughed "Wouldn't a necklace of some kind sufficed?"

He raised an eyebrow at me, shaking his head at my obvious lack of knowledge about fashion.

"No. That earring draws the viewer's eye to that gorgeous face of yours. A necklace would have just drawn attention to your already broad shoulders and they don't need to be accentuated anymore than they naturally are. Do you understand the styling logic now?"

I... truly didn't. I was out of my area of expertise but I replied anyway "Sure.. I guess."

He giggled at me and looked down to my feet. "I can't do much about footwear... but those black shoes you were wearing will suit the outfit, thankfully. Just put those back on."

I took his advice once more, I lifted my head up after I had finished tying my laces and finally caught a glimpse of myself for the first time in his mirror on the opposite side of where I had been sitting the whole time.

What the... what happened to me?

I stood up, approaching the mirror and gazed at my reflection in awe. I already knew my skin was paler than it had been but my face was now much more defined too. The small pockets of baby-fat that I hadn't quite yet outgrown as a human were now gone. I brought a hand up to the side of my cheek, slowly drawing my cool fingertips across my skin that felt like silk.

Yeonjun caught me staring at myself and wandered over to join me.

"Oh right, you haven't seen your own reflection yet, huh? Immortality did you good, kiddo."

"My eyes... they've.. changed colour..?" My once deep brown orbs were now coloured lavender with small slithers of white and silver in between the intricate lines of my irises. I looked god damned mythical.