Page 179 of Paradox
“Eden?” I slowly raise my head. “What the hell are you doing?”
I clamber towards him.
His focus is like steel.
“Seriously? You’re… Right now?”
It’s like I’m not even here.
Not a side character.
Not even an NPC.
I kneel up.
“Eden?”
I wave my hand in front of his face.
Am I losing my mind?
“You’re insane!”
He re-inks the needles.
“You didn’t sterilize them!”
“I ate your ass last night.”
“That’s beside the point, and you know it.”
I try to snatch the stick from his hand, but his other pushes me so hard I fall backwards.
I wince as my weeping back slaps against the floorboards. And like a robot, he keeps on working.
I rush back towards him. “Quit being an asshole, and look at me!”
“I’m not an asshole.” It’s monotone, and dry as hell.
“You’re ignoring me.”
“I’m not ignoring you.”
Clenching my fists, I double over and scream out my frustrations as loud as I can.
He doesn’t flinch.
He just takes the cloth and wipes away the excess ink.
And then I see it.
?
“What the fuck is wrong with you?”
I stand in silence, and watch as he starts ?; the Hangul letter for ‘i’.
“You’re a fucking idiot!”
