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Axel stepped back a few steps to admire the scenery before him that he was trying to find a good angle to get a picture of.

He's currently at the top of the highest hill in the city, which isn't saying much, since the city he's currently living in is a little lack luster when it comes to nature. He's lucky he even found this little escape hill at all.

He thought that once he moved here, he wouldn't be able to find anything that would inspire him to take any nature pictures. He'd have a pile of boring city shots, of more or less the same thing in every other picture; i.e. people sitting on benches, packed buildings, or the nasty subway station.

The hill overlooks the city of Busan.
Currently, he's staying in an apartment only 2 blocks away from the college he's attending. It was a long walk from the city all the way out to the hill, but it felt worth it to Axel.

In a way, he felt attracted to the hill?

He couldn't explain it- maybe it's got something to do with the weird power, that he discovered he has about a week ago, doing shit to his brain.

Ever since the power just came upon Axel, strange things have been happening- as if having a power of somesort at all already isn't strange enough!

Axel doesn't even really know what his power is. There's nothing that he can really go by other than; he made a few people dizzy and throw up, and sometimes he gets hardcore headaches himself.

The strange bubbly feeling that led him to this hill felt different than that though, there's no telling what extent this ability can go to...or what else he could even possibly do.

Axel took a deep sigh, wanting to stop thinking of it. Having a superpower isn't as cool as he imagined.

He felt the cool breeze on his face and blow through his loose clothes, it was relaxing.

Axel raised his teal colored Polaroid camera back up to look through the lense. The shot he wanted was of the sunset going down behind the big city of Busan.

Now's the time to take it. The sun starting to lower at this very moment creating blinding, yet soothing, rays of light that bounced off the peeks of the tall buildings. The sky turning a beautiful pink, orange, and yellow ombre.

*snap!*

"Perfect."

Just as the sun fully went down and the photo developed from the camera, Axel suddenly collapsed.

The whole room seemed to spin as his knees hit the ground.

His head was pounding.
He couldn't think any coherent thoughts.

Ever since he discovered his power, he has been having outbursts like this, only on a much smaller scale. They haven't been this intense before, he actually felt scared in this moment.

All Axel could do was crawl on his knees to get somewhere, anywhere, possibly to his phone to call someone for help?

He didn't look where he was going, something stopped him from going any further to reach his bag.

The stump of a tree that used to be there, but had been cut down.

For some reason, being in this very place made everything spin less, made his head hurt less.

Something caught his eye.
A small glint in the grass growing near the stump. The light from the rising moon beamed down on it.

As if the universe was telling him he needed to know what that was.

Axel reached over and limply felt his hand around in the grass, pausing when he felt something.

He grabbed it, and had to practically rip it out of the ground due to the fact that the earth had started to grow around and over it since it had probably been there for a while.

It was all so unexplainable. As soon as he had the object in his hand, it's as if all of the head pain and spinning went away in an instant.

What was this object you ask?

Axel lifted his hand to see he was gripping a small box.

He took no second longer to quickly open it.

Inside....

"What the actual heck."

A pair of earrings.

Why was this box just on the ground at the hill he was so attracted to?

Why did all of the symptoms of his power just so happen to act up now, and stop once he found this?

Does any of this even mean anything, or is all of it just a pure coincidence?!

Earrings?

Specifically, light rose gold colored earrings with lapis blue jewels that dangle at the ends.

They were pretty earrings, but he couldn't really picture himself wearing them.

Why would he even think of wearing them anyway?

They're literally just random jewelry he found outside while he was having a moment.

"Okay...I think it's about time to go the fuck home."

With that, he set closed the little box, then set it on top of the tree stump. Leaving it there, planning to never pick it back up again.

Axel grabbed his satchel and swung it around his shoulder, then wore the strap to his camera around his neck, letting it hang as he walked.

He bent over and picked up the developed picture he took that had just fluttered to the ground when he had collapsed.

Axel let a small smile curve at the ends of his lips when he examined it.

It came out perfectly.

He carefully put it in his satchel, making sure not to bend it.

Just as he took the first step to head down the hill- it hit him again.

Axel cursed as he stumbled backwards as everything around him rotated, and his stomach clenched.

When he started breathing heavily and that didn't do anything, all he could think of doing was hobbling back over to the stump and grabbing the small box he left on it.

The instant he grabbed it again, everything stopped, just like the previous time.

Now wasn't the time to think any harder about this, it's getting late and his apartment has a curfew. He doesn't want the old landlord yelling at him for the hundredth time about coming home in the middle of the night.

When he put one and one together, it was clear that the box, or even the earrings in the box, made his random outbursts stop.

He shoved the small box into his satchel without another thought, then started sprinting in the direction of the bus stop.