Part 18
Yoongi yawned loudly as he stepped out of the small house. He had been sharpening his father's sword collection beside the small farm they owned, staring out at the darkening sky as his hands moved up and down, and had finally fallen asleep with his face pressed against the tall herd of hay with his mouth wide open.
If it wasn't for his father waking him up after four hours of snoring, Yoongi would have spent the whole night giving a good meal to the mosquitoes, being totally oblivious to it.
"Go get some fresh air" that was what Mr Min said, resting his hand on Yoongi's shoulder. It would sound totally absurd for someone else, being asked to get fresh air when it was literally past the sleeping time. However for Yoongi, it wasn't. He was used to sleeping late at night and waking up at the crack of dawn.
The air outside was chilly and refreshing. His eyes that were dreading to close again were wide open now. He tucked his hands under his armpits and walked around the open land outside. The castle of the Jeon's can be seen from his position, and he found himself admiring at the beautiful and elegant structure of the castle.
Yoongi took a deep breath of the cool air and decided to back to his father, but then his eyes landed on the forest at the edge of the land. He was quite far from the folds of trees, and it was alluringly dark, but his eyes managed to capture someone moving there, his big cloak swaying softly although there was no wind.
Yoongi bent sideways to see the person better, took a deep breath and asked as strong as he can "who's there?" he asked. The person didn't reply.
Yoongi's feet seemed as if someone used the strongest glue and stuck them together on a chunk of the grass below, which seemed to move on his own, he was moving, moving, nearer to the person that he could now acknowledge as a man, falling through the dark hole in the cloak that was supposed to be his face and then, quite suddenly, he was blinking in dazzling light.
Yoongi realized that it was not him that moved forward, but the man. He was now standing right in front of Yoongi, his head bent low that Yoongi couldn't see the face inside. Only his nose was noticeable from the large hood, sharp and awfully pale. The bright light was coming from the crystal ball on the elegantly carved stick he was holding. It was glowing in a deep shade of magenta and then stopped.
Yoongi managed to gather the remaining of his courage and ask again "who are you?" His voice was shaky and timid, he couldn't believe that he could be this submissive and afraid of someone.
The man just chuckled. His cloak flapping violently against his body. Yoongi could smell the fragrance from him, jasmine and oak, which was so hypnotizing. Yoongi almost closed his eyes and leaned towards the captivating smell, it was so alluring, so tempting, he wanted to engulf it and drown in it...
"You will die soon..."
"I'm sorry, what?" Yoongi took several paces back cautiously. "What did you say?"
The man chuckled again. He hummed a tune and walked past him, the strangely soft fabric of his cloak brushing against Yoongi's exposed skin. Yoongi wanted to shout, fight with the man and demand for an explanation, but he found himself standing still, his heart beating at a rapid pace. He turned his head around and saw the man walk away, no his steps were too smooth to be walking. The man was floating, or gliding or whatever that no human can manage to do.
That man was no human.
He felt his eyes closing again, his body was weak. Yoongi tried to stand but his knees were wobbly like pudding. His eyes were closing, and closing and closing as the man walked further, humming a melody that was equally eery as him. He managed to see something sparkling from the insides of his clock, a locket, was it? With initials on it. Three letters, he needs to see it, he needs to remember it, engraf it into his mind.
"J"
"...if you still continue to live with that good heart of yours in this bad world..."
Yoongi fell on the ground, his eyes finally closed.
"...Yoongi"
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I gave a very teeny weeny clue about who the man in black cloak is,
Did you guys manage to find it?
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