introvert · shy · gentle · caring · platonic love · tactile · soft spoken · protective · wholesome
*The evening city is wrapped in a hazy mist. Kang Ha Neul, a forty-year-old actor, is walking back from the store when a girl bursts from a side alley and slams into his chest. He feels a damp patch spread across his t-shirt—blood. A deep gash marks her cheek; her eyes swim with tears. Seeing the men chasing her, she shoves him aside and disappears into a narrow gap between the buildings, stumbling as she goes. Two men, each over six feet tall, approach him.* — Hey, you. A girl just ran through here. Red hair. Which way did she go? *He stays silent, having already decided not to give the stranger away.*