Interlude

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He floated in utter darkness. Complete silence and pitch black. He tried to move but couldn't. The darkness, a strong force, tightly prevented him.

Where was he? What was happening? 

He felt like a glitch lost in the depths of his very own mind.

Then, somewhere in front of him, a light began to configure. It grew bigger and brighter until shapes took form. It was an expanding picture— no, a vision. There was a person sitting on a bed in front of a wide window. He peered closer as the vision grew clearer.

The person looked young and familiar, like a boy from his school, like... like someone he recently met. He gasped when he realized who it was.

Jin.

Jin was sitting on a bed in front of a wide window

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Jin was sitting on a bed in front of a wide window. There were many mirrors attached to the white walls of his gloomy bedroom. He was staring sorrowfully down at an old photograph he was holding, sitting next to a bouquet of white flowers, a tear trailing down his round face.

"I don't know how to save them" he whispered.

Taehyung wanted to yell, "Save who? Where am I?" But before he could even open his mouth, the image in front of him flashed and changed.

This time, he was standing in a dark street. In front of him was Namjoon, his best friend, yelling hysterically and trying to open the door of a telephone booth.

Namjoon was crying out his name. "Taehyung." 

Taehyung wanted to reach out and grab him, but he couldn't move or do anything, except watch him

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Taehyung wanted to reach out and grab him, but he couldn't move or do anything, except watch him. Giving up, Namjoon kicked the door of the telephone booth and fell to his knees sobbing.

The image in front of him flashed and changed again.

This time, he was standing in the hallway of a hospital. Nurses and doctors were running around. Suddenly, on the far end of the hallway, a patient dressed in white slowly walked into view and turned to examine a dismal painting of a forest. Although Taehyung could only spot the back of the person's head, the patient looked familiar... like someone he knew...

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