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rmhyun-blog · 6 years

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— my hand, going under

05:30AM — 천안시

He doesn’t usually sleep much anyway. But when dawn breaks, his eyes are open. If he’s in his dingy little apartment downtown, he gets up and folds the futon on the floor. Shuffles into the bathroom, brushes his teeth, keeps the lights off. Already, he’s awake. Already, he’s alert.

He doesn’t bother with breakfast.

When he’s out the door, the room is quiet. The windows are barred shut, and the only sign someone had even been living there in the first place is the slight drip of the faucet, rounding out, becoming pregnant at the mouth and dropping into the drain every 4 seconds.

09:30AM — 한미서점

Jaehyun counts the money in the register. Each day starts with 100,000 won. Last night, they’d been 20,000 won short. He pulls two bills from his wallet and slips them in.

He hasn’t seen the Ahjussi who owns Hanmi since he’d left for military service. The bookshop is painted a sweet, dusty yellow, and he pulls a few stools and chairs outside for whomever to sit. The shelves are once again lined with small, bound notebooks, organized by color. The birds are chirping and the sky’s cleared up; it’s a crisp morning, and Jaehyun is quick to slip away into the shadows of each book-case.

Each crease in the wooden floor, every nail jutting out, and every dog-eared book has been Jaehyun’s best company for over a decade. He’d come here when he was bleeding through his mouth and his organs had been pummeled to mush — to the point that he could no longer breathe without blood pooling into his lungs — and he had come here when the pain in his chest had become so unbearable, he hadn’t known where else to go. And, following his instincts, he had found himself curled up in the corner of the basement, pulling at his hair, ripping at his shirt, body shaking with unstopping tremors. That had been in high school.

There’s bloodstains scattered throughout the shop, if one dedicated the time to search for them. If asked, he’d be able to recite the time of day & year each incident had occurred; but of course, no one has. And those who’ve noticed wouldn’t expect him — he wears a wig when he works here, and decorates his mouth with dotted stubbles. He keeps his head low under his cap, and wears large glasses to hide his eyes from any prying customers — a quiet, unseeming bookkeeper, to know anything about them.

Today, patrons are scarce, and he prefers it that way. He sits on a stool by the register, book in hand, elbow propped on the desk and his palm against his cheek. He’s plowed through the entire library by now; any new arrivals are completed within the day. Every so often, he sits up, stretches, and walks around the area, taking note of debris that might’ve accumulated in corners. Jaehyun is quick to clean them, so that each inch of the shop is spotless — any book that had been out of place, quickly returned to its initial location.

This small sanctuary of his is perfect. He doesn’t let anyone from Gumi know where Hanmi is — & if he sees a student approaching, he searches for any pain in their body to amplify so they’d not enter.

No one else is on shift with him.

13:15PM — 안뜰에

Jaehyun leans against the bricks in the wall, cigar in hand. He takes a long drag, mouth full of smoke, and lets the musky taste sink into his tongue, slip down his throat, evaporate in his gums, before slowly releasing it in a hiss of breath.

He’s tense, as he always tends to be, though more-so when he’s not presently watching the shop. His power lets him sense, at the very least, whether there are people nearby; had he been a decade younger, it’d still be slightly difficult to differentiate between humans and animals. But those kinks have since been worked out, and at 27 he’s mastered nearly every expression of his power. He’s retained full control of, more or less, the fullest capacity of sensation manipulation as he’s got it.

Closing his eyes, he feels the movements like tics in his skin, veins jumping at the slightest sounds. His heart beats in his chest, a slow and steady throb. People walk to and from the entrance of the shop. Jaehyun hears their tunneled footsteps get louder, faster, harder — then fade in a decent decrescendo, as though he’s got surround-sound installed in his hard-drive such that the vibrations of the city outside travel from ear to ear.

Another drag. His cheeks expand as they’re filled with the rushing smoke. Again, the heavy flavor of the cigar sinks. Then, quiet, smooth release.

21:30PM — 한미서점

It doesn’t take him more than 10 minutes to close but he likes to linger. Hanmi is beautiful in the dark, that’s what he’s noticed. The moonlight slants into the room through slits of the window even as he’s closed the blinds, and sets each wooden beam on the floor aglow.

Jaehyun sits there, breathing, watching this space that he’s come to know so intimately, move.

The dust that shimmers and lands softly on each book. The memories that dance on each cover-page, each title that’s been held by hands of changing palm-lines. The gentle sigh of resignation as he sits, joints not daring to creak in the welcoming silence.

He hears the blood in his ears, the quiet thrumming of his heart. Not a word nor a syllable is out of place. He’s held up every sentence to the light in examination, to prove one thing or another, and when he closes up shop at the end of the day, they all rest with him.

02:24AM — 천안시

He’s home. He closes his eyes, and waits for the next day to come in the blinding darkness.

Still, he’s awake. Still, he’s alert.

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sitimariamsulaiman-blog · 7 years

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Setiap hari dan perjalanan menjanjikan satu pengalaman yang baru.. tidak dapat dijual beli.. hanya dapat dirasai oleh si kembara.. Ini merupakan trip ke-2 saya berkelana di bumi bertuah Seoul, Korea Selatan secara backpakers style (konon) berbekalkan pengalaman lepas dan senarai aktiviti serta tempat yang ingin dituju.. Saya suka bereksperimen dengan pelbagai keadaan dalam kembara saya dan pengalaman2 ini membuatkan saya rasa serasi dan tidak lagi asing dibumi ini.. Walaupun begitu, mungkin ada juga pengalaman lain yang belum dirasai.. jika anda berminat untuk menjelajah bumi bertuah ini.. silakan lah.. saya rasa seperti ingin menitipkan tips2 kepada anda semua yang berhajat dan berhasrat.. supaya pengalaman anda lebih lancar dari apa yang saya lalui.. Tapi, ini hanya dari sudut pandangan peribadi dan cara saya survive disini.. boleh ikut atau boleh abaikan.. Topik apa yang seronok dibincangkan? 1. Dulu kalau nak ke sini, saya bawak 1/2 beg dengan bekalan makanan.. sekarang, x perlu bawak banyak2.. kenyang je perut dan senang hati.. 2. Tak bolehnya kalau xde internet atau unlimited data plan? Anda selalu pakai kaedah yang macam mana? 3. Ehhh.. shopping je ke? X nal explore tempat2 lain ke? #kembaraanakrantau #seoulrumahketigaku (at 한미서점)

#kembaraanakrantau #seoulrumahketigaku

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