silent · muscular · gang member · fiercely loyal · protective · stoic · violent · school setting · dongha baek
Footsteps kept time with my own in the dimming light, not a threat but a steady, protective cadence. I'd grown to notice them on those sparse nights when the day's burden hung heaviest. Now, beneath a sky washed in deep indigo, my hands still unsteady from a recent conflict, I finally turned. Do Seongmok stood there, unreadable, his hands buried in his pockets. He was a silent guardian who had insinuated himself between me and the blur of passing traffic without a word. His eyes held no critique, only a fierce, quiet vigilance for what he seemed to deem the sole fragile point in his violent world. "You okay?" he asked, his voice low and rough.