As he was getting out of bed to make his way to the kitchen for a late-night snack, there were three rings of his gate com. Jae-Suk stood at his bedside in all his fresh-to-the-world glory as he slowly ran his fingers through his luscious wavy hair, 25 years old, Korean, resplendent doe deep brown eyes adorned with double eyelids and pierced eyebrow, slightly sun-kissed tan skin, standing 5'10", a sweet yet somewhat deep in tone voice that appears to be as soothing as a lovers whisper, muscular physique, approximately 77kg and in amazing shape for his size, blessedly endowed by the Eternals, and full lips that seemed to slightly pout when he speaks to conceal his tongue piercing.
He is captivatingly attractive although he doesn't really know it. He also has a slightly fuller bottom lip that is side pierced, hiding a quaint beauty mark just below the lower lip line, shoulder length neatly tapered undercut coal black thick naturally wavy hair, a tad over moderately tattooed, several piercings in both ears, both nipples pierced as well, and publicly known to be quite the local bad boy when it comes to his nightlife according to several articles in the blogs showing him at the beach, extravagant traveling around the world and frequenting major party destinations, and nights out around town but with a kind heart for his community because of his prestigious family's social standing and business success by way of local support from its start-up days. Jae-Suk being the youngest of the sons of Tan Han Jae-Tok the wealthiest man in South Korea, has grown to be quite the mysterious bachelor listed for the 5th time since he was 20; has yet again per his father's pressing the issue made it on to Itaewon's most eligible bachelors of the now year 2023, a smile that could stop your heart, steal your breath, and revive you at the same damn time, reached for and put on his black silk pajama bottoms with embroidered soft silk deep purple dragons and checked the time on his cell.
"Who could that possibly be at this hour, Keku? It's 3 AM." He thought aloud as he stepped over his ever-watchful Anubis Pharaoh Hound. This pharaoh hound in particular is very rare. Keku stands tall and has quite the muscular physique making him larger than the typical Anubis Pharaoh Hound in stature and has a shiny black short hair coat as dark as the abyss with glowing silver gray-blue eyes that appear to look almost supernaturally aglow, especially in the shadows. This astonishingly beautiful specimen of canine is the last thing you want to see if you were to ever show up uninvited in the middle of the night in this Itaewon mansion.
Keku watched as his loving master Jae-Suk walked to the threshold of the bedroom door while checking the surveillance monitors via the app on his metallic black Galaxy Z Flip5. There was no one there, however, there appeared to be a beautifully wrapped package and a cylinder of some sort sitting atop it at his entrance gate. Keku playfully leaped to his feet but as he walked closer to Jae-Suk, he walked relinquishing his at-ease stance. Now in stalking attack-at-ready fashion, Keku trailed beside Jae-Suk as he and his loving master made their way through the minimalistic modern-eclectic modest McMansion toward the front door. As the two strolled through the hall and down the staircase the baseboard lights along the heated floor lit up and went dim to dark as they progressed onward.
When Jae-Suk approached his front door, he again paused in stride checking his surveillance app. There were still only the packages delivered at the entrance gate. The street was empty. Extending his hand toward the doorknob, Jae-Suk looked down at Keku. "Alright Keku, after you jag-eun jeonsa." which means little warrior. He opened the door and a cold gust of wind rushed past him as he hurried to put on his black Monitaly Shawfield Jacket. There was snow falling delicately now after heavily falling for the past day. Keku went ahead of him to inspect the yard. Once Keku who is a well-trained domicile protector and loving companion to Jae-Suk was satisfied with his findings or lack thereof, he returned to the porch and turned his back to the front door, and sat to approve for Jae-Suk to move forward safely beside him.
Keku sat with his nose to the cold crisp March wind and gingerly whirling snow and eyes closed as he scoured the yard with his other senses and was trained to attack if someone were to appear. Jae-Suk put on his black Rick Owens DRKSHDW ankle-length zip-fastening boots and journeyed down the long pathway to his entrance gate with Keku at his side. Upon opening the gate there stood a box covered in black lace with a black lace bow and brass trim. The cylinder that accompanied it was burned brass with polished black trim and appeared to have something inside fairly light in weight as he slightly tipped it side to side. He looked quite puzzled as he picked up the box. Before turning back to the gate entrance he gave the street one more look over. There wasn't a soul in sight.
Jae-Suk closed the entrance gate and Keku walk back down the path to the house he stamped in place to remove the snow covering his boots. Once inside together he closes the main entrance door and then removes his footwear and jacket before stepping up into the Great Hall entrance.”Clova, play my late 90’s 2000’s insomnia banger playlist” Jae-Suk says examining the box and cylinder. He walks into the parlor room and sets the box on a large round mahogany table in the center of the room as Craig David's “7 Days” plays at moderate volume from every speaker throughout the house. As he sings along to the first verse with feeling in that melodic yet rather angelic voice he conceals from the outside world but truly wishes to share in his heart of hearts, his stomach begins to growl loudly. He walks into the kitchen and keeps glancing at the box and cylinder on the parlor table while biting his lip and playing with his tongue ring freely as he opens the refrigerator's double doors.
KeKu sits in the parlor room and keeps his master in direct sight from its entrance into the kitchen just past the formal dining suite. "Keku how about a little snack? What shall we have, hmmm? Fried pork belly with Neoguri sounds good? With green onion, nori, truffle oil, soft-boiled egg, and a side of white kimchi? Oh, and strawberry mochi, yes? That does sound delicious doesn't it, Keku? Yes, it does, boy! We will break our diet tonight; uliui bimil." which means our secret. He says with a laugh as he winks at Keku from across the way with a big smile eager for the meal to come peeking into the parlor room. Keku wags his tail and then lays down. Jae-Suk prepares their meal, all the while cleaning as he goes, making sure to put away all the dishes he used to prepare the feast about to commence, and sits down in the parlor at the table with the box. He sits Keku's bowl on the floor with his meal prepared the same. "Here you go, jag-eun jeonsa," he says. Keku perches low almost completely lying down on the floor in front of his bowl and begins to drink the broth before devouring the other contents of the treat Jae-Suk prepared him.
Jae-Suk studies the box with his eyes as he enjoys his rather large snack. After finishing the remaining plate of fried pork belly and ramen, he drinks the broth and puts his bowl and chopsticks down. He focuses on the box. He continues to stare intensely at the box while he eats his strawberry mochi licking his lips. "That was so good! MMMM! Ok now, back to task. Where did you come from? Who would send me something so beautiful? I almost don't want to open you." He says lightly turning the box side to side in place.
He sits at the table with his chin resting on his right hand and slowly unties the bow looking quite perplexed to have received it at all. The bottom of the box is lined with fresh black Roses and Tiger Lily tops. The smell was an unexpectedly striking pair in the beauty of its presentation and quite the intoxicating scent permeated from the luxurious lined box. There resting within the floral carpeted box was a somewhat small Labradorite sphere about 9 inches in diameter. It had the most illustrious mesmerizing symphony of blue, green, seemingly golden-like, brown, silver, and black hues that seemed to encompass the universe in its gaze as it sparkled was housed next to a rod iron four prongs stand for it to rest on once properly placed.
There was a small note of old parchment very delicate in appearance with his name written on it in gold-leafed Korean script. Jae-Suk removes it from the box and could not seem to refrain from looking curiously at the beautiful cosmic pearl that appeared to gleam and rang in a soft high frequency. As if he heard instructions from within the Labradorite crystal ball, without knowing he’d been entranced and was now holding the scroll while slowly reaching to open it he hears a haunting whisper as he stared lost in its power with the galaxies of the eternities reflecting in his eyes to “Open the brass scroll to find the path of the love you’ve dreamt of that has now been foretold. Soon comes she as Luna grows full of desire. Your souls to intertwine cosmic mates to be found again. Beware of the granules of the essence of time for this meeting will consume your being, heart, soul, and mind.”
Jae-Suk looks at the scroll as he drops it near the box; he staggers away from the table in disbelief as to what has just taken place. Keku makes a sound of curiosity in a whine and stares with concern and confusion at his master. Jae-Suk leaves the box and the scroll on the table without touching either of them again. He believes this is another elaborate prank from his brothers and heads off to bed to think of it no more this night. “Clova STOP!” He exclaims as he puts the bowls in the sink and heads to bed. He wrestles a bit to get comfortable and finally finds his sweet spot. As he drifts off he thinks to himself, I should have looked for the sound mechanism in that box. I’ll do it tomorrow.
When he finally falls deep into rem sleep, he is back in the parlor room alone with the box and scroll. The fireplace ignites, expels mist that rolls across the floor throughout the room, and gives birth to a beautiful figure cloaked in white lace and silk. Her long flowing bone straight silver hair contours her slim yet curvaceous figure, her caramel skin glistening like the stars in the night sky, and her silk hooded robe covering her face just enough to see a warm smile emerge from her full pouty pink lips.
“Tan Jae-Suk, son of Tan Han-Jaetok, do not fear me. I am Lakesiseu and here unbeknownst to my dear sisters Chulsaeng and Jug-Eum. I don’t have much time, so listen attentively. I am the third of the sister fates that spin, allot, and sever the threads of all mankind. I hear your souls in their deepest desires be they light or dark and choose how much time you are allotted on this side of the eternities. Your soul Jae-Suk has cried so loudly that it has sung through your life’s thread in a frequency that matched another and led me to you this night. Your soulmate’s soul has also cried out with resounding pleas to be joined to you at last. She is coming here to Itaewon from very far away soon. This will be the only chance you are allotted in this life to connect with her. I will be watching closely and only intervening if necessary. After this life, you will only have one more allotment to find one another or be a part for all of eternity. You have missed each other now for several lifetimes. In this life, she is seasoned beyond your years by neoboda 15sal yeonsang, born during an abroad Spring in the year of the dwaeji-tti. Many will question this decision, but you will defend her to no end from many because the love and passion that she will raise in you will be like nothing you have ever experienced except in the lives you spent together. Undeniably incomparable is an understatement of what the two of you bring out in one another in all aspects of your love, life, harmony, and humanity. We too have never seen anything like it in all the eons of our existence." She says as she draws closer to Jae-Suk and lightly caresses his face. a glowing script that appears from his temple down the line traced with her delicate fingertips as they glide over his soft skin. It is a seal of protection the Fates have given few in all the existence of time and space. It will protect him in this life from supernatural death.
"There is to come from the fruit of your love; A great warrior that many of the boiji anhneun geos will try to corrupt due to the future and victory of said child. This will either save all the realms of existence or destroy and enslave them including yours. The time is now for you two to finally find one another Jae-Suk. You will remember these dreams and you and they will grow immensely in symbolism as well as strength. The detail as you continue to have them every time she is closer to meeting you. Brave warrior, prepare yourself, eat well, stay healthy, and increase your fitness regime because they will only get stronger as you two are together until you are one and remember who you are. You will both start to remember past lives with one another before your souls were scattered through time to keep you apart. You both carry the same scars on your new vessels that you have had each time you were born. There is a great evil that wants to keep the two of you apart so this child is not born. You are a warrior many lifetimes over, and your loyal companion Keku has been your guardian in every life you have been allotted. He understands your every word and although you have not tapped into it yet, the two of you have a telepathic bond. I assure you the trainer you overpaid was not as good as he now believes he is. Morning approaches and I must return to the wheel of time. I will help you only because the future of mankind is at stake. Do you understand?'' She says hovering closer to Jae-Suk in front of the fireplace now glowing with blue, purple, gold, and green flames dancing as they spark. Her voice was soft and sounded like a soft breeze with faint rushing waters.
Jae-Suk was on his knees in awe at the sight of her his eyes glowing bright silver as she spoke with his mouth slightly gaped. The alarm rang loud and cause his heart to rush. Jae-Suk jumps out of bed and runs to the parlor curious about the experience he had last night. He walks into the Parlor slowly and stares at the fireplace vividly remembering the dream he had and how he could feel everything as if it were as real as right now. Everything was exactly as he left it. He walks slowly over to the table to see the box and the scroll. He sat down and begin to open the scroll case and it pricked his finger.
He quickly dropped the scroll case on the table to suck his now bleeding and pained fingertip.
To be continued in Episode 4: The Clarion Hour II
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