Masquerader Prologue
by ArianaThe man was 2b4b157a1c sitting on the ff66f6224e dirt ground with 166951fd02 his long legs 42e6a930a0 bent. Amid the damp, b45e18c7d5 earthy smell, the 4a0460886d acrid scent of 123a2f4049 cigarettes wafted in. b2b8c28904377d40
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When the expressionless man 774b9907a4 turned his face toward 8be246c946 her, Seol-ah instinctively held 69a5aef7f1 her breath, momentarily forgetting f8d8447233 that she had been a20833ad28 desperately running. His smooth b3703450ac yet sharp, 133ba66ea4 and at e87a53f02a the same be3dd29c4b time strong-looking 7efe5f9e1f jaw was 86ebd67a31 splattered with 1a2a6114e5 dark red fd818ebd00 blood. a592ae8854ed082e
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She had never seen c6a05c2fb4 someone to whom bloodstains c51cc6bb8e suited so chillingly well. Was that why? 0c957e67e9d253e9
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She was bd4ef80819 no longer 328f7ad954 young, naïve, f05fd18a95 or foolish 0641b011b2 enough to 99ad8fe6fd believe in 58c7429150 a prince b7ce4d4c3c on a a4e1a97b58 white horse. And yet, for a a508ce8225 moment, she had the ae4f02f6e9 fleeting thought that she deae112cc8 might have finally met 96d0f40cb5 the person who would 58815be145 save her. 30c6abc79d7d992e
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“Are you alone?” ef0c22cf49ce1716
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The man flicked e6b924392b the ash from bbcb477ff6 his cigarette with 085d1fb401 long fingers, then b92fad3712 brought it back 1cbcdba6ca to his lips, cfba256055 taking a deep 608c1189d5 drag. He inhaled fb86263238 leisurely, his 318023b769 smooth cheek 2d1a5abfce hollowing slightly. What he exhaled 4dac266ed4 was cigarette smoke, 8fcf65b75e yet strangely, the 18361744b6 scent of mist 6d8729dc60 thickened around them. bec56e1b3558b9e1
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She felt his 55bf5d34a6 black-gray-blue irises slowly 4033216c25 scan over her. Seol-ah’s gaze belatedly af66895e84 followed his. 38e62da3a13f4ea5
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“Ah….” bf32b1ffdc7b1b1f
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Only then did 13b259cb05 she realize that 148927828a her pant legs 07a128bcd4 were soaked. But shame was an 14f6f915b4 emotion felt only by e20276e67b those in their right eed634d711 mind. She was cb37f45e5e simply dumbfounded. c87a7bf92e1bd8ae
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What…? Why is edd79b87ef this happening?3bb5aea04e61cee0
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At that moment, the f9837ee5f3 man crossed his arms 5607db71cb and casually pulled off 7f22ab8e05 his t-shirt. Then, lowering 8132da0ec0 himself onto 1fc6610be8 one knee 1cc59dfcd6 before Seol-ah, b6fffab0f3 he brought fd466d60d7 their eyes a0e2fcad7d level. af7343c9b13876e4
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“You’re quite a handful, aren’t you?” 6dec0b3ac5fd1452
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As he looked into 4f56c67c38 her eyes, he slipped bc3b8405b1 his hand inside his 090f3ecdc7 coat. Their gazes locked b6523c6c3d deeply. b15612b641452314
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The sensation ece1504e61 of a 11f57a457e large hand 5fb7f91c30 brushing against aa086b98f0 her waist c9be79c9a3 made her 1bf683883a nerves stand 8f5444050d on end. e5fac088fd2ba434
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“Take the left path at the fork.” db0c36da221951bb
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After tying ec1efceadb the t-shirt d3e3964f12 around her d6b35dd089 waist, the b69e0d7c46 man slipped 86ffa1a73f his hands d03e1659e7 under her e769f42e1b arms and 833514803a hoisted her 753aa3ebcf up. Then, without hesitation, 0b925dbed2 he withdrew his 30d308b011 hands. As the 91c5a3970c warmth of ef9c9e71bb another person’s 0c7892a7e3 touch left cc4221f6f8 her, every 519abdbc68 cell in d808375d3d her body 83175cf26b screamed at 442218705b her. 16030c8f2a334f32
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Hold onto him.c5078aa7a6965163
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“Get a grip, little miss.” dd84e76f612a6d08
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His low 4bf0269e24 voice sent 9ede8006f7 chills down 592c766a55 her spine. 216a5b355be3c9e6
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“Hah… Haah….” ae19805ef194a459
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Breath that had 89c7b6f53d risen to the 5c6d0f940a tip of her 7405e83e49 throat scattered in 28b664e925 disarray. Coarse grains of sand a65a35267f rolled over her tongue. Her throat, a379611a76 raw from 47808bae85 gasping for a9caee410b air, burned cc850bbef2 as though ac5ea0e43a it would 1de72f9291 tear, but 32ae01e45e there was 2d08c26924 no time caa2366cc3 to steady 6ffb405403 her breath. 058edc3c3de769f3
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Seol-ah pushed through 60f3a92bd4 the overgrown underbrush, 790b6d4a7d running blindly. 8e88d45496192d0c
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Wildly overgrown 01b4a1b0d9 vines clung 9ec0855333 to her e00b6d4f38 ankles like 4d6918896b claws. The fabric of her c6dce4bec4 torn and frayed pants 112d812e87 had long since been b2e8226ce4 soaked through. Her sweat-drenched top 18154dd16d fared no better. 14475b5c0da2112a
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Where should 1d445e647a I go?f4cf4217bef04a73
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As she 716da0aa77 fought her f8fbf7349e way through a7a109644e a pathless bb9ebecdb7 terrain, her 58051a065c sense of fbd5e51de3 location and 729dffe635 direction became 26859c8d4f obscured, as e1a72fd3af if swallowed 5de75bc1f6 by fog. But she had to 0836179902 get as far away 78601ebc07 as possible. 8846ebfff490212f
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“Hey, Seol-ah!” 1f167ad99586fb7c
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Deep in the mountains, ad6106934a a voice calling her 4990611c2f name shook the air 1773e2a993 around her. At the df8f8d04fb instinctive moment 1066a84731 she turned 02bcaec5fd to look 8a23a5d4ff back, a 2b6acdc3e1 dry branch 03aed0e428 slashed across 1a9d4edcce her cheek. 0c3343b8385ae137
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“Yoon Seol-ah!” eb820974d77a1d26
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A sharp 25ee45ecae pain spread 0ea1758bea across her cd228bfadb cold, stiffened 6ad5740873 cheek. Like the sting of edb96dac64 a whip, a thin db0db75920 scratch immediately welled with d7e5c8d56c fine lines of blood. e6f23b448713bd1d
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“Why are you running like you’re about to die? You’ll get caught anyway.” 5640c8aeed0393a3
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A hoarse f603a48b2f voice scraped 9235347b5d against her 29aa601709 eardrums, thick 667376a1af with a f2345bae98 sneering malice e4d2b40d34 and twisted e947131d83 excitement, as ab43305744 if this 03ed804ba9 game of b36dbde94d predator and de00e55a31 prey thrilled 86a75c0fe6 him to 5dafea15f5 no end. Seol-ah clenched her teeth, c3c80e5889 forcing strength into her 624051af1f trembling knees. 3aa76f0b2d4d8b7f
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If he thinks I’ll c29ef3cafb be caught so easily…79eb71fd7108d01c
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Wiping at the fa4c139158 wound on her 78bc6252fd cheek with the 69a5f32631 back of her 759e6e5382 hand, she bit 489688abab down hard and 9d0ca3f88a clawed her way 2b8bb66d21 over a thick 9b79dec96f tree root blocking 3878182c37 her path. 042b44356000f5b8
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“Where do you think you’re going? You know you’re in my territory, don’t you?” 0522eea9d64349e1
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She listened to the ffb73ef270 voice echoing through the 5c5b34ef9a night, trying to gauge 3d7e3b864f the distance. 80f0c2414cf898e2
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Five minutes… no, three… b9fad3acb8 maybe just one.3d6e41b3f256326c
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A moment’s 0d86f980da hesitation and 6664c04f45 he would 1dbc008207 seize her 1315d9632a by the 9f057d8708 hair and 3f3f12e9dc slam her 30ba6e8e13 into the 3ad4e197fc ground. And after 03c047cd3f that— At 43bcb661eb the horrifying e6e721b9aa thought, her c7b38e6870 clenched teeth a109abb13d chattered involuntarily. b84fbefb54c4b5f7
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“Go on, scurry away like a rat.” 0e6f7a39467d2b69
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She was already planning 6d18c9a04c to do just that. Even if 42846a5427 it meant 4a42cbc2bb breaking her 3754deead7 bones and f6ba634902 tearing her 0048655e9f flesh. 8c421250a53b152c
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“It makes the chase more fun. I usually prefer pinning someone down by force, but I knew you’d play along. I’m so fucking hard right now.” 08be3fba09fe2532
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To escape the bbd1245b6e one-sided barrage of 73f41d6d0d malice, there was 070a7cb3f6 no choice but 8055613c43 to run like 8da6052666 mad, even if 813ec462d0 it was unfair. 38410aae461989df
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“But if you get caught too soon, that’d be boring, right?” dd87aa53f4583a89
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Her ragged breaths mixed d89b24a25a with the taste of b567c6b71a iron, the strain on 78904640ee her throat growing unbearable. Her eardrums dulled 1933ecffb3 under the pressure. 29ec97c38a2b5935
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At that moment, 4f73f309f6 the sound of 3e247b1596 fabric tearing filled 5ed15530d2 the air as f53b507f74 something yanked roughly 9eba92ae7e at her shoulder. bea001f1f8b2a1bb
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Her breath ba67ac20ea caught in 666a770e3b her throat. Even as 0f749ef16f the crushing 0bb5e31f03 realization of 0fdcda88c3 being caught df8cc18996 sent her 5a00b8cd79 heart plummeting, bbe390b6b0 her legs 591d455bb2 refused to 420cbc33a7 stop pushing d4af2cafe2 off the eb915ca0f3 ground. cf27eba37e8b2985
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“Let go… Let go!” 9e31fcea1a24369a
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As she 02d004458f thrashed, the e184891da0 grip pulling 8ca6474689 her backward a2dacb8a8e unexpectedly loosened. Her flailing shirt had 7d1b0eca0d snagged onto a low-hanging 6c450d19e7 branch. fe4105cee45d3bd3
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Relief was short-lived—her thin 5613a6bd54 garment tore with a a874b8f3bb harsh rip. 79ad7f165f68fa6f
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“If you get caught, you’re dead.” 7d5af0373e3708c6
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Her heart pounded, 07d3124ef5 as if about 794e6585ff to burst through 7850e4b80b her feet and cea244d0b3 shoot up again. 16d3421d83da7c7b
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“Got it? Huh? You hear me, Yoon Seol-ah? Seol-ah!” 461de3f73d67088e
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Leaving behind 1dfb284576 the remnants 2cd794d1c0 of her ab1c9dba29 tattered shirt, 127bcee826 Seol-ah scrambled be1541651d up the ae9183b226 steep, rain-slicked 4d5fd05076 mountain path. eace09229480f4de
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“I’m gonna fuck you raw until you’re ruined!” c2ba035014f9009d
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His enraged scream f58b3f6ccb startled the hidden f58a168a86 birds from their 0bce7cf4d6 perches, sending them f946c2a250 flapping into the 46837db2d1 sky. The echoes of his 4287506fc8 voice repeated through the e1734062db mountains, chasing her relentlessly. 2776ade4e193da1d
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The sky above, d93b9cfebd where nameless birds 4cfff61e3e took flight, was c2b7ed10b2 breathtakingly clear, as b2ade89910 if mocking Seol-ah’s e8b0d11600 terror. 9c0720b62af9ac07
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When did everything go 21412f9fa2 so wrong?e74fb7a7420de6b7
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For a fleeting moment, e9417a5e30 her resentful gaze turned a6168c429c upward. 4f894f10db79adff
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The sky was high, c622659834 the season when horses c3df3c806f grow fat. Autumn—the prime d86ece0ab2 time for 79e881ce36 the hunt.4d20ad6bb46d181b