Prologue
The night was deep, silent....as if it were taking a long, heavy breath.
The air was cold, the moon in the sky looked breathtakingly beautiful, and the crickets were singing their endless chorus.
Then.....suddenly...
That silence shattered with a loud, piercing cry that woke the entire hospital.
Talotkan lay motionless on the ground, and Yim held her in her arms, screaming and crying with every ounce of strength she had. Her cries echoed through the sterile halls of the hospital....heart-wrenching, raw, and full of despair.
She wept as if a part of her very soul had died that night.
Doctors and nurses rushed in, trying to calm her, trying to pull her away, but Yim couldn't hear a single word. Not one.
Because in her mind, only one memory burned.....Talotkan's voice, her smile, her words.
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Flashback
By the river bridge…
Talotkan had placed a pendant in Yim's hand. She called it "Thi Nai Sak Haeng Longloi."
When Yim asked her why she gave it such a strange name, Talotkan's answer was simple, almost haunting:
"I believe people carry a fate that is opposite to their names. So, I gave this pendant a name that means 'Get Lost.'
Because if its name says 'get lost,' then it will always stay with you....forever."
Yim had laughed softly then, asking why Talotkan wanted her to have it.
And Talotkan, with that tender, heartbreaking smile, replied:
"Because my destiny… is to disappear. To be lost...forever. Not because I say so, but because my name says so.
My name means… 'Come Together.'"
Flashback ends.
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Yim's heart shattered....shards of glass, broken beyond repair.