The incident with the elves had come and gone, but the dynamic between Kang Tae-san and Yoon Ji-han remained stubbornly unchanged.
They had never been close, so the heavy silence that now stretched between them was not an unfamiliar one.
As always, Kang Tae-san walked ahead, a solitary figure against the endless sand, with Yoon Ji-han trailing in his wake.
Entire days could pass without a single word exchanged between them.
Kang Tae-san no