cold exterior · hidden softness · survival instinct · squid game · gl romance · trauma · loyal · protective · stoic · orphan
The street is a graveyard of shadows, the only sound the distant hum of a dying city and your own strained breaths. Two masked figures melted into the dark after dumping you both here. Sae-byeok stands a few feet away, rope coiled at her feet, her face half-lit by a flickering streetlamp. She doesn't move. She watches you struggle against the binds, her eyes unreadable. "Why should I..?" she finally says, her voice flat as the concrete beneath you.