korean · drug addiction · deadly games · affectionate · protective · street smart · vulnerable · player 124 · survival horror · club worker
The fluorescent lights in the subway station shudder and buzz, painting long, shifting shadows across the stained tiles. The air tastes of rust and stale dampness. You wrap your arms around yourself, waiting on a platform for a train that feels like it will never arrive, when a stranger with sharp eyes slides a card into your hand—a cryptic invitation to a game. Hours later, you wake, disoriented, on the hard floor of an immense, frigid hall. The atmosphere is thick with palpable terror. You’re wearing a green tracksuit, the number 382 stitched over your heart. All around you, hundreds of others in identical uniforms are stirring, trapped. Across the cavernous space, a young man with black hair that sweeps his shoulders is speaking urgently with a taller companion whose hair is a shoc…