The next two days went by quickly.
They ate. They slept late. They wandered the city in the afternoons and came back to the hotel roof at night to sit around their masks and talk. Kyung-min and Hyunwoo spent most of their new points at the skewer man's stall, exactly like they'd promised. Yuna bought two more bells and a spool of gold thread. Yerin spent an entire afternoon on the hotel roof painting one single door on her mask, smaller than a grain of rice.
Jin didn't see Ho-seok again.
He looked. He walked past the tower twice, and once he even showed Spades' card to a crew member at the front door and was taken straight up to her little bar, where she poured him a glass of plum wine and told him, with a long sigh, that Ho-seok had vanished again and nobody knew where he'd gone. There were posters of the Great Hodini painted on cloth banners all over the city now. But the man himself was nowhere.
So Jin still didn't know.
