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Gahyeon fluttered her eyes open, with that, shining beams of lights welcomed her as she adjusted her vision to the new surrounding. Her body felt light, legs getting weaker.

"W-where am I?" She asked, her vision still adjusting. All she saw was a blurry vision of her sister infront of her. "U-unnie..." She muttered, having difficultly in talking as she walk towards the figure of her sister.

Slowly, her vision got clearer.

And she was welcomed by her sister with a big grin on her face. It wasn't Yoohyeon though. "Welcome to my dreamworld, Gahyeon — our dreamworld," Jiyoo said, smiling widely.

Gahyeon froze at that moment, and realized the situation she got into. "D-Don't come near me," The girl said, taking a step backward, eyes trembling in fear for she knows that she got herself into trouble.

"No, Gahyeon. I didn't bring you here to hurt you. I'm not like them," Jiyoo said in a soothing voice which calmed Gahyeon a little bit. But it wasn't enough to convince her.

Jiyoo took a step forward but stopped her. "No... Stay there. I won't let you near me until I know I can trust you."

The older sighed, raising her arms up  motioning that she already surrendered. "Fine," She put her hands down and looked straight into her sister's eyes. "What can I do for you to believe me?"

"Just look me in the eye and tell me -- everything," Gahyeon took a deep breath before continuing, eyes wandering on the ground as she felt the tears forming in her eyes. "And by everything... Tell me why you all came back, and why you're doing all of this!? You don't know how much innocent lives had been wasted because of all these stupid things you did! I want answers, unnie! I'm so tired of it!" Gahyeon whimpered, tears already pouring. "All I wanted was a peaceful life you know. I wanna be happy... Yeah, I'm sad that I lost almost all of you but... I promised myself that I will live a happy life for you guys because me being depressed my whole life is something you guys won't like. So I tried to move on," Gahyeon sniffled, looking up to her sister, a glare glistening in her eyes. "But I was wrong... Because it looks like, you guys were the ones who hasn't moved on yet. And what do I get in return? Suffering."

"No, Gahyeon... It's a long story. It's not our fault for doing all of-"

"Then whose fault is it?" Gahyeon cut her sister off, wanting answers. She knows that she may seem rude to her older sister but she felt that she has to because who would still be soft and kind to a person who became the opposite to you?

"It's her..."

"Who?"

Jiyoo hesitated to open her mouth at first but she thought that telling the truth now will make things better. "It's.. It's mom," she said, looking Gahyeon at the eyes. "She's back and she never left."

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Jiyoo went and told Gahyeon the whole backstory on how it all happened. They were walkong endlessly in the depth of nothingness. It was all black but the ground felt lile water, as it made ripples from every step you make.

"It was all horrible, she manipulated all of us to kill people in the village because if we don't she'll do bad things to us."

Gahyeon was silent as she waited for Jiyoo to tell her more. Even though there were already a lot of questions squirming inside her mind, she let her sister do all the talk, fearing that she may ruin the moment.

Jiyoo sighed. "And we tried not to get manipulated too much because if we do... We'll totally become her minion, become crazy even because we'll never have our self-control anymore since she's already our brain."

"How did you became isolated from them though?" Gahyeon finally asked a question, itching to more about the story.

"I escaped."

"How?"

"It's not important how, the important thing here is that the others were left and we need to do something about it. We need to make them leave mom's dreamworld."

"And how will we do that?"

"I don't know but I think we need more of us to fight them. Our sisters have strength not to joke with. And if we will save them, we need to make mom disappear forever..."

"We can make my friends join and there's Yoohyeon unnie too. I think that's enough for all of us."

"Good. So I think I'll take you back to them now. But I can't leave here so you need to convince those friends of yours."

"How could I tell you that we're already ready?"

"Burn one feather on the most beautiful dreamcatcher you'll find, and in a snap, I'll be there. Okay? Now go-" Jiyoo got cut off when Gahyeon hugged her tightly. A small soft smile formed in her lips as she hugged back.

"Thanks unnie. Thank you for coming back."

"No problem, lil' brat. Now go, and be careful," Jiyoo said pulling out from the hug.

"Okay unnie," And with that, Jiyoo covered Gahyeon's eyes. Making the girl feel nauseous as she closed her eyes as well.

A slow minute passed, and all the girl was hearing was silence. Then come the faint sound of voices, it was getting louder as every second passed.

And there she knew, she was back to real world.

"How the fuck can a turtle have butt cheeks? That's ridiculous!" Jimin said.

"How do expect it to take a shit then?" Taehyung said.

"Or get fuck-"

"Shut your hole, you child." Jimin said as he pointed at Jungkook who was innocently eating a lollipop.

"What the hell are you guys talking about?" Gahyeon asked as she slowly opened her eyes.

"She's awake!" Taehyung squealed out of excitement.

"Hell yeah, I am. Now call the others... We have important matters to discuss."

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Some of the theories for the scorched feather was so close :') I'm so proud of you guys.