„And your footsteps, that have once wandered the world, where I can see them now, mother? Why don’t you come even if I feel that I lack air being without you?” and bitter tears flowed on SolHi’s cheeks while holding SinHa’s body to her chest, crying inconsolably, on her knees, only a few meters from the sea, the same sea that left her an orphan and for the umpteenth time - devastated.

She was still hearing, ringing in her ears, the words of the child who entered their yard in a hurry, yelling at her: „Nuna, they found her at the rocks! They found aunt SinHa at the rocks,” and, at that moment, the sky collapsed over SolHi.

But even so, with her heart madly beating in her chest, SolHi ran to those rocks where the child told her that her mother had been found - the same rocks off which SinHa threw SolHi once into the water, when she was still a child and her mother had one of her usual schizophrenia attacks and on which SolHi used to stay each time she was returning to the village because those rocks were reminding her about the chance a stranger gave her for a new life when he took her out of those cold waters many years ago.

But wasn’t the past important anymore when her mother had been found and with this feeling in her chest, SolHi was running toward the beach with hope in her heart that they found her alive while her mind was all the time whispering because of the fear felt in her heart: „she hid because of fear. She has for sure hidden because of fear,” but… life wasn’t taking in with her.

Getting on the beach, SolHi stopped for a few moments, seeing how a few people from her village were carrying SinHa’s body in their arms after they had taken her out of the water where she spent the last week.

This made SolHi suddenly cover her mouth with both palms whilst her breath stopped and all this because she recognized hanging on the dead one’s hand a bracelet - the same bracelet SolHi gave to her mother the night DooSan came to her village to take her back to the city.

She suddenly fell to her knees, lacking power and will, while, in front of her eyes, she was seeing the moment she gave that bracelet to SinHa: they were both staying in front of the house and SolHi was combing her mother’s wet hair while SinHa was looking with big enthusiasm at the beautiful multicolored bracelet that was hanging at her wrist, a handmade bracelet SolHi bought for her mother when she had a few more money which she could spend on something like that. „It’s for you, mother! Don’t lose it, ok?” SolHi kindly told SinHa then.

„Is it new?” SinHa asked SolHi then, enjoying herself like a little child for the gift she received.

„It’s new,” SolHi murmured, holding her to her chest, and that moment of holding her mother to her chest while SinHa was still alive, SolHi was seeing it at that moment when she was staring at SinHa’s cold body when she has been brought to the shore.

„Mother,” SolHi had shouted madly, pulling herself out of DooSan’s arms who suddenly hugged her, trying to impede her to get to the dead one. Then, followed the struggle with Iu Min, who stepped in front of her, telling her: „It isn’t worthy, SolHi! It’s too…”

„Out of my way,” SolHi shouted, pushing him away from her with all the strength she was capable of at that moment. Then, she kneeled down next to SinHa’s body and started to caress her face with shaking hands. Then, SolHi’s fingers touched her mother’s livid lips, her wet hair while she was murmuring like a mad person: „mother, it’s me! Wake up! Let’s go home! Let’s go!”

But… there wasn’t any way back home for SinHa, at least not one she could walk onto on her own feet. SolHi instead wasn’t able to understand that and she was holding her mother to her chest, trying to give her some warmth, for despite all the sufferance she felt in her life because of SinHa, she had been for SolHi her mother, the saint person who brought her into this world, no matter the cost SolHi has paid for that „sacrifice” made by her mother to give birth to her.

„We found her at the foot of the rocks,” Iu Min told DooSan and Kan who got closer to him. „That’s why the body hasn’t been dragged further off the shore. Otherwise… we wouldn’t have found her never.”

„How did you find out that she was here?” DooSan asked in a strangled voice while he was watching SolHi who was crying inconsolably.

„One of the locals … he saw her on the rocks… the same night aunt SinHa disappeared. That man is working in another village and he was turning back home from work and it was already late at the night. But… he thought that SolHi was the one on the rocks and that’s why he didn’t get closer because… only SolHi had the habit to climb on these rocks late at the night.”

„When did this happen?” Kan asked.

„About a week ago!”

„What? About a week ago?” Kan shouted. „And… what the hell did everybody in this village do that nobody informed SolHi about this? Why?”

„I can’t answer this question, detective because… I also find out today about this. It seems that aunt YeJin and her son kept this back from SolHi. And… to be honest, I think that everyone in this village knew about this, but they preferred to say nothing and just help them to look for her.”

„This is already too much. How the hell was this possible to…?”

„Detective Kan, it’s not the right moment,” DooSan whispered. „We’ll investigate this later. Now instead… we must take care of the rest.”

„Of the rest?” Iu Min asked confused. „We can find everything for the funeral here, in the village because even if this is a small village, we can buy everything here and…”

„This can be a murder, young man. Do you think that I’ll leave this at hazard?” DooSan told him reproachfully. „Nobody will touch that body except SolHi till the CNS won’t come here for further investigations and… till GhiYon comes, nobody will talk to SolHi about this. Just… give her some time to say goodbye to her mother,” DooSan murmured. After this, he headed toward SolHi.

Behind him, Kan gave a phone call, telling Park GhiYon to gather his team, to take what he needs, and to come to SolHi’s hometown. He didn’t tell the forensic doctor more details and neither did GhiYon ask for more: if DooSan called him there, it means that there is something important there and it was probably related to someone close to DooSan.

***

GhiYon and his team got to the village when it was already night, due to some unforeseen events. Thus, to not keep SolHi and her mother on the beach as if they were monkeys at the Circus while the locals were gathered all around them and this could have led to the loss of evidence, DooSan ordered Kan to move SinHa’s body into the house. And, at the moment the forensic team and the paramedics entered the room, SolHi was sitting on her knees next to her mother’s body.

At first, she didn’t notice them due to the fact that she was staring at a blind spot in front of her. But… feeling some movement behind her, she looked to her right and she shuddered, seeing all of them gathered there, especially when she saw GhiYon: „doctor Park, what are you doing here?” she asked frightened and confused at the same time while standing up.

„Detective Ian, we… only came here to do our job and… I promise to try to do all my best for the body not to suffer damages while the investigations, for…”

„Out! Out of here!” SolHi shouted, and her scream brought the rest of those present in the yard into the room.

When DooSan entered, SolHi pierced him with her beast glance, for she knew very well who called the forensic doctor there. „Nobody touches my mother’s body or I won’t respond for my deeds!” SolHi screamed as if she was SinHa in her bad times.

„Detective Ian, I think you should listen to prosecutor Han and to…,” Kan tried to make her react, but SolHi only stared at him with hatred.

„I said nobody will touch her! That’s enough how much she suffered in life to allow her to suffer being already dead! I won’t allow it!”

„What I won’t allow is that such an unexpected death as your mother’s death is to be something unchecked and unsolved, SolHi. More after finding out that Min SinJu steps in your footsteps,” DooSan shouted.

„Min SinJu? Who is Min SinJu?” the neighbors who had come to the funeral wondered.

„I don’t care, prosecutor Han, because I don’t intend to…”

„An order is an order that must be respected, detective Ian, and you won’t be the exception to the rule,” DooSan told her in a demanding voice.

„DooSan, don’t exaggerate! I think it’ll be better to…,” GhiYon tried to stroke them down, but DooSan remained adamant, staring at SolHi who was standing in the same place, impeding the forensic doctors and the paramedics do their job.

Suddenly, SolHi got out of the forensic doctors’way amazing everyone with her attitude.

GhiYon, also amazed by SolHi’s behavior because he knew her as being stubborn as a donkey and at all capable to listen to DooSan’s orders, has still decided to take advantage of the situation and hurry the procedures. So, he ordered his team to take SinHa’s body out of the room without investigating it because it was clear that she didn’t die there and it wasn’t necessary to investigate the body namely there. After that, the forensic team left the room, except GhiYon who approached SolHi who was staring at the floor, squeezing her fists. „Detective Ian, I promise I’ll do it all clean and quickly, and… you’ll be able to organize the funerals as soon as possible.”

„I don’t need special treatment, doctor Park,” SolHi murmured without watching him. „Just do your job and investigate this as any other case. What interests me are the results, for… besides being the dead one’s daughter, I’m a detective and… I want justice for her, in case that … others had to do with her death.”

„Ok, I got it,” GhiYon said and he left the room in a hurry because before leaving the village too, they had to investigate the place where SinHa had been found, even if it had passed already been one week since she died.

Then, one by one, those present in the room also got out of it, allowing DooSan to be alone with SolHi. „Listen, SolHi, I…,” the man eventually murmured. SolHi instead, not wanting to listen to what he was trying to tell her, wanted to pass by him. DooSan instead grabbed her by the arm, stopping her. „I want to understand me, for…”

„I want to know nothing, prosecutor Han,” SolHi said, staring into his eyes. „I listened to your order as the detective I am. But… as my mother’s daughter…”

„SolHi, please!”

„SolHi, nothing! Detective Ian and… I hope this is the last time you call me by my first name and I also hope not to remind you about this anymore.” After that, she pushed his arm away from her and she also left the room.

In the yard instead, SolHi attended a new unpleasant surprise, for Kan and SuJin, who have just turned back from the village after checking the cameras, were telling inspector Yu about what they found out: „that night when detective’s mother disappeared, a black van entered the village, but… it had no registration mark and … if what the locals say is true, the van headed toward SolHi’s house.”

„What? What van are you talking about now?” SolHi murmured, getting closer to them. DooSan did the same because he also listened to their talk when he exited the room, following SolHi.

„Well… to be honest,” Kan stammered, „we didn’t find out any important detail. Only what you already heard. But yet… from what we gathered and more after finding out that Min SinJu asked his lawyer to investigate SolHi’s past, plus this happened a few days only after Yoon Suk entered his club and checked that… I think that it's logical to think that this isn't an accident.”

„Do you mean that Min SinJu got into the house… and, that they threw my mother into the water?”

„SolHi, this isn’t a fact. It’s only what we suppose that could have happened,” Yu added. „Let’s not forget about Iu Shi Yon - something similar happened to your mother.”

„Yu Shi Yon has been killed because she saw Min SinJu at Lee Ha Ni’s apartment the night she has been killed. What about my mother… they hadn’t why to…,” SolHi said in a voice strangled by tears. „More than this… my mother’s hands weren’t tied and she also didn’t have a tape on her mouth. This means that they didn’t get her because…,” she stopped, seeing the old YeJin and her son showing up in the yard, being brought there by SuJin and Iu Min. „You!” SolHi shouted. „How could you… how … how could you don’t tell me about my mother?”

„SolHi, we…,” the old woman murmured, looking away.

„Speak once!” SolHi shouted madly, trying to get at the old woman.

Old YeJin’s son got between SolHi and his mother, being impolite with SolHi and showing this way that he felt no guilt for what happened: „what do you want from this old lady, crazy woman? I think that she had enough for her taking care for years of a mad person like your mother was to suffer and because of you now.”

„Crazy?” SolHi murmured madly and wanted to hit him.

DooSan instead grabbed her hand, whispering to her: „it isn’t worthy SolHi. At least not here and not now, for…,” but to his surprise, Kan punched the man for SolHi.

„Oi, I make a pardon! I thought that there sat down a fly,” Kan said in an innocent tone. „But… I think I’ve been wrong and if the hit has been painful, I won’t say that…”

„That’s enough, sombe!” SolHi whispered. „All that matters for me now is to know what happened to my mother that night. So, aunt YeJin, tell me: did those men pass by here?”

The old woman kept silent instead and looked away. Her son did the same and this seemed damn suspect to everyone. „Talk to me! What happened that night?” SolHi shouted again.

„We don’t know,” old YeJin eventually murmured. „We only left her alone for a short time and when we turned back…”

SolHi froze. „Did you miss? Did you turn back?!” she murmured eventually confused. „Wait a minute: this is too much for me! I don’t get: how… what do you mean by „we turned back?” Do you mean that you left my mother alone?”

„She wasn't forced to take care of that crazy woman 24/24, right?!” the old lady’s son murmured.

„Yes, she had to! She was forced to stay here 24/24 because it was our agreement and because of this I was paying your gambling debts, idiot,” SolHi shouted.

This made DooSan murmur disappointed: „now I understand why she doesn’t trust anybody. She has been betrayed by the people she trusted.”

„And… besides the fact that it was your obligation to keep an eye on her all the time… you were also forced to tell me when she disappeared.”

„We thought that we’ll find her. Just as this happened other times too,” the old YeJin said with a strangled voice.

„But … you didn’t! So, you should have told me about this at least a few hours after she went missing. You knew very well where I’m working and that I can ask for the necessary help to find her. But you didn’t even this: that’s why she spent days in cold, in the water, where is dark and cold, where nobody could hold her in his arms and tell her that she can finally rest in peace. She has lived in that darkness for so long! I can’t believe that namely the people I’ve entrusted my mother’s safety betrayed her and left her to breathe her last breath into the water, to live into darkness even after her death, and… you should pay for this,” SolHi shouted among tears.

„SolHi, please, forgive us! We didn’t want to…” the old YeJin started to lament.

But SolHi was relentless: she turned her back on them, after telling Kan to take those two from there, that she doesn’t want to see them anymore, and if it was possible… to make them vanish off the planet. After that, SolHi went to the beach, closely followed by DooSan.

***

The water… could always calm SolHi down in stormy times and… the sea breeze which was slowly caressing SolHi’s hair with a slight blow of the wind coming from the sea was also drying SolHi’s cheeks, abundantly bathed in tears.

But… even so, SolHi had a restless soul, engulfed in a slow-burning fire, and when she remembered the fact that she has been left alone in that big place called the world the fire from inside her started to burn increasing up to the sky while the tears, bitter tears, were terribly pressing her chest, making her feel that she lacks air.

„I need to breathe! I want this to stop!” SolHi suddenly shouted. „Do I ask that much, God? Do I really ask that much?”

But she received an answer from DooSan only, who put his jacket on her shoulders and sat down next to her: „cry if you feel that you should cry! It’s the only thing that can extinguish the arson from your soul, SolHi. Only the tears can wipe the blood from the wounds and make them eventually heal.”

SolHi finally looked at him: she was still upset with him that he has decided to take SinHa from next to her and to close her into a cold room, called the morgue, with a Park GhiYon next to her whom she wasn’t loving despite his good words told her, but she didn't know what else to do than to look with bad eyes at DooSan.

„I know that’s difficult for you to know me next to you, SolHi, more after what happened in the house, but … I won’t leave! Not now!”

„Why?” SolHi asked incredulously.

„Because… you need me,” and, grabbing her arm, DooSan pulled her toward him, held her to his chest, and, even if he thought that SolHi will stand against that hug, he has been so amazed to feel how his chest was slowly shaken by her cry and how his shirt got wet because of her tears. But even so, he wrapped his arms around her body, slowly kissing the top of her head, sending her a little bit of comfort this way.

Somewhere behind them was Iu Min, listening in silence to their words, but … what hurt Iu Min the most has been to see SolHi in the arms of another man, even if she was crying at that man’s chest only and it wasn’t for sure a romantic scene. Or… was he wrong?

Yet, Iu Min didn’t interrupt their little moments spent in two. He kept silent and, after a few moments of watching them, at a slow step, he headed toward the village where the locals have divided into two camps: one part was blaming old YeJin and her son for their deeds while the other part considered that it was too much that they had been handed over to the police and they considered that SolHi was guilty of not choosing to forgive them because… no matter what happened, in their village never happened something like that.

„Only life can judge them,” some of them were murmuring while the other part was saying that „one pays for everything he did in this life and not after death, and those who have cheated on the heart of a child that suffered so much in life, must be for sure punished by law.”

***

„And yet, you lied to me, aunt YeJin! You told me that you left my mother alone only for a short time. But… the locals told me that you returned to our house only in the morning,” SolHi told the old lady with disappointment because when she came to the town to participate in SinHa’s cremation, she has also decided to first pass to see the old lady to the Kanam police station where old YeJin and her son have been brought at DooSan’s request.

„SolHi, I…,” the woman murmured through tears.

„Why did you do that? You always said that my mother was like a daughter to you, a daughter that you promised to always protect. But… you let her die alone eventually, in a place that was cold and dark. My mother didn’t deserve that, for … she suffered so much in her life.”

„SolHi, as a daughter you have the right to hate me now. But trust me: we only wanted to find her as quickly as possible without hurting you, for you also suffered a lot and…”

„You are again lying! What you were afraid of was that I’ll find out that my mother didn’t destroy anything in aunt Ho’s store and that I’ll figure out that you only asked for money all the time for your own good because if you cared about me and my mother, you would have called me right from the beginning … and maybe…”

„This doesn’t guarantee the fact that we would have found her alive. We don’t know when and how SinHa fell into the water, for…”

„Because you didn’t keep an eye on her as you should have. Instead, you had the face to ask for money each time your useless son needed it for paying the loan sharks. Or… am I wrong?”

„No, you aren’t,” the old lady said with a quiver in her voice.

Bereaved, SolHi closed her eyes and clenched again her fists, listening to the old lady’s deaf cry, and this movement has been spotted also by DooSan who was in the monitoring room, watching the interrogatory because he allowed her to see old YeJin with the condition that he’ll be there and with the cameras turned on and this because he was afraid that in a fit of madness, she’ll act wrong and will spoil everything. Now instead, seeing how much she was suffering, he was regretting the fact that he allowed her to see the old lady, as he was regretting the fact that only a few hours ago, in the ward, he accused her that she wasn’t trusting anybody: now he was aware of why he was acting so.

Then, listening to SolHi’s voice, he also shuddered: „you’ve never been underwater, aunt YeJin! You don’t know what those depths hide just as you never felt on your own skin the ice coldness of those water. But I… felt it once… that coldness… and I know why my heart hurts me now, knowing that my mother died namely there, in those waters.”

„In the same water she tried to kill you, 20-years-ago, she eventually died,” the old woman whispered and DooSan again shuddered, hearing her words, after he initially froze, listening that SolHi has been about to die in the hands of her own mother.

„She was out of reality then and you know this very well,” SolHi said, defending her mother.

„That’s why did you forgive her?” the old woman asked. „Another person in your place would have left long ago and would have forgotten about the mother who tried to kill her.”

„To leave, grandma? Where? To run? Why? And… neither did I understand someone nor did I forgive that person because I know this very well: that I wasn’t guilty of anything. But… yet, I’ve been next to my mother all my life at least to reward her for the fact that she gave birth to me.”

„SolHi, this is not enough to sacrifice yourself,” the old YeJin insisted.

„It was enough for me. Yes, it has been enough for me, for… my mother was the only person that was still alive and… I lost her now because of you. And… if I ever forgive my mother for all the sufferance she caused me, I won’t ever forgive those who took my mother from next to me.”

The old YeJin rounded on SolHi, grabbing her hands: „please, SolHi, don’t get revenge on my son for what happened. If you want to get revenge on somebody then get revenge on me, but… please, take mercy on my son, for… if not, I… SolHi, please, have mercy on my son, for him is my only son.”

SolHi forced the old woman to release her hands. After that, she grabbed the old YeJin’s hands, slowly bending over the table and staring into the woman’s eyes. „To have mercy? No, I don’t intend to do that, not on the parasite that let me an orphan eventually, for I’m sure that he’s the guilty one for what happened that night and because you left my mother alone.”

„And yet, SolHi, show some mercy on me! At least for the fact that I took care of your mother all these years.”

„It hasn’t been for free… and we both know this, just as we know how much money I’ve sent to your son’s pocket each time he was losing a gambling game. And you, as a good and caring mother, have always taken care to save his skin with the money you've begged for from me. And I, the stupid me, I’ve sent that money each time, telling myself that I have to be grateful for your help, that I have to keep silent and to earn more just to pay your frauds masked as charity. Did it at least have been funny? I ask if it has been funny to ask me to send you money for what it was supposed that my mother did, thinking that I won’t ever find out this. But… surprise: I knew this. I’ve always known this, right from the beginning. But… I chose to keep silent and to send money - money that was thrown again and again into the greedy mouths of the gambling houses. And yeah, it has been my fault for being silent, that I preferred not to say anything about this. However, I won’t ever forgive you for not doing your job as you should have done it… just I won’t ever forgive you for the fact that you’ve only fooled me. And because of this, you’ll pay for this. For each mistake you’ve deed, you’ll pay. Even if this doesn’t bring back my mother and even if this doesn’t make me feel better and even if that still hurts.”

„Then, why do you do that, SolHi?”

„For justice, grandma, for justice! And… do you know?! Someone told me not long ago that I just beg for mercy, but I do nothing to help myself. And he’s right: I’ve always done everything for others, but nothing for myself. That’s why I’ve decided not to cheat on myself anymore and… to do as I’ve always done: to do justice to my mother, but not with my own hands. Don’t worry: I won’t be your butcher. I’ll just allow justice to take care of you and to punish you as you deserve and… I just hope it will be for a long… long time.”

SolHi stood up and left the room, not paying attention to the old woman’s cry who was begging her to have mercy on them.

Closing the door behind her, SolHi stood a few minutes next to it, squeezing the doorknob and watching somewhere at a blind spot in the hall.

This is how DooSan found her right away after leaving the monitoring room. „Are you alright?” he asked in a whisper, holding her hand.

„No, I’m not, but … I have to be for the moment,” and SolHi has been honest with him for the first time. But… even if she tried to be tough with herself at that moment, her feelings won the battle against her, and SolHi collapsed in DooSan’s arms, inconsolably crying.

***

Hungry flames are eating the coffin into which has been eventually closed SinHa’s body, for SolHi chose to fulfill her mother’s last wish: to transform her body into ashes and not to offer it to the ground. And SinHa told SolHi about this when she was still very young, in the few moments when her mother could still think logically and normally talk to her.

SolHi remembered her mother’s request when Kan asked her how she wants to organize the funeral. After a few moments of thinking about this, she told him in a whisper: „let’s organize the cremation as my mother wanted,” and they headed there right after that, for Yu and Yoon Suk helped her with this and they had been who went to the morgue to take the body.

While the car was driven along the streets of Seoul City that weren’t crowded, a strange situation for the city at such a late hour in the night, SolHi supported her head to the window and looked through it.

„SolHi, if I die one day, give my body to the flames,” SinHa told her 11-years-old daughter one evening when SolHi turned back home after she and Iu Min finished washing the cog where they were working in their free time.

The girl instead didn’t understand right from the beginning what her mother tried to tell her. So, she watched her for a long time, standing in front of her while SinHa was staring somewhere past the girl. Only when the sun almost disappeared from the sky, did SinHa look at her girl: „I don’t want a traditional funeral, SolHi. I don’t want my lifeless body to be buried. So, make it ashes and throw it on the sea or let it be blown by the wind over the surroundings.”

Even if those words told to a child seemed cruel, it had been for SolHi a kind of comfort, for that moment had been one of the few moments SinHa had talked to her so calmly and… more than this… she asked SolHi to do something else than to vanish somewhere as she was doing, almost every time she was seeing the girl.

„Mother, your dream has been fulfilled,” SolHi whispered through tears while she kept watching the flames which were dancing around the coffin. But what was more important for her at that moment wasn’t to realize that she could fulfill her mother’s dream, but the fact that the men that were appreciating her were there, supporting her. However, SolHi wasn’t aware of this all the time. But even so, even if they knew that she was that kind of person that doesn’t trust anybody, they were there: inspector Yu, detective Kan, Yoon Suk, and DooSan. Even A Rim came there to show her support for SolHi, even if somewhere deep inside her she was still blaming her for what happened to YuSan.

After the cremation, they went to the beach, for SolHi knew that her mother hated the moments when she was forced to stay inside the house, that she had always dreamed about freedom.

But… before spreading her ashes, SolHi left the white recipient next to the rocks, where SinHa has been put on the sand after being taken out of the water and where, one by one, the villagers got closer to that bowl and put a small stone next to it, building a kind of tower, and … each of them also brought a white flower.

However, only the old Pan dared to talk to SolHi and he told her when he got closer to her: „I hope our mistakes will be eventually forgiven, for each of us pays for everything he did in this world and we eventually reach the same place your mother is now. Let’s let behind us the resentfulness and to keep only the warm fire of the beautiful memories inside us and… let be forgiven our delay too.” After this, he bowed three times in front of SinHa’s photo that was seen next to the bowl with the ashes.

SolHi instead looked neither at Old Pan nor at the other villagers that said goodbye to her mother. She only hugged Mina who was delayed to come to the funeral due to some work problems and who came when they were already at the beach. Then, SolHi focused her glance at the waves that were playing at large and she watched them till the moment she had to spread her mother’s ashes over them.

She first took a full hand, squeezing the fist as if trying to feel the warmth of the ashes. After this, she took the hand out of the bowl, and, when she opened the fist, the sea breeze called the ashes at large and it flew long-long over the water.

***

ONE WEEK AGO. ON THE NIGHT OF SINHA’S DEATH.

Asleep on the floor, holding the doll to her chest, SinHa moved in her sleep, hearing some noise outside the house.

Namely that noise awakened her a few moments later and after she sat on the floor, she crawled toward the door which she later opened only a little bit and she saw a few men getting out of a black van and heading toward the house.

„Bad guys! Bad guys!” SinHa murmured frightened and she ran toward the window that was still open to vent. Then, she jumped through the window eventually and she ran away. But she didn’t notice that jumping she dropped a photo of SolHi while she was still a child.

Getting in the house, the aggressors looked everywhere and doing the less possible noise, while trying not to damage anything. But after a few moments of looking for her, they realized that SinHa ran through the window. So, they followed her right away, but even so, they couldn’t understand where she ran. That’s why it forced them to look around for minutes, but without finding her.

Meanwhile, SinHa was hidden behind the bushes, covering her mouth with her palm not to be heard moaning with fear while squeezing the arm of the doll with the other hand. Only when the men passed in front of her and headed in the opposite direction to the beach, did SinHa get out of her hidden place and ran toward the beach as quickly as possible. However, she didn’t scream or asked for help as she used to do each time she was seen in the yard or she felt the danger close as if being aware at that moment that only the silence could have helped her to be safe eventually.

She didn’t stop either when she got to the beach in the area of the rocks where she remembered that SolHi used to hide when she was little and SinHa was chasing her away from the house or was scolding her. But climbing them had been difficult for SinHa and while she was trying to climb them, her feet slipped a few times and, because of this, she scratched her arms and legs.

But… she managed eventually and, being on the rocks, she allowed the sea breeze to caress her face and, stretching her arms on the sides and closing her eyes, she allowed the cold and fresh air of the sea to refresh her so pleasantly.

„Home!” SinHa suddenly screamed, feeling someone approaching her. But when she turned her head and looked back, she saw only the weak light of a bike moving away from her. „SolHi, this is you?!” she screamed again, but nobody answered her. So, happy, she wanted to run after the light that was moving away, but when she suddenly rotated on her heels… her foot slipped on the rock and she dropped the doll in the water. This caused her another crisis and SinHa started to cry blue murder: „SolHi, my girl is in the water! Someone to help me!” but there was nobody there to hear her screaming, not even when she bent too much over the rocks to see through the water where the SolHi from her imagination disappeared and, soon after this, SinHa has been swallowed by the same water she has been so afraid of all her life.