"I can't leave you here alone so will turn around as you bathe." Jungkook teases, brow cocked playfully as the anxious human opposite him widens her eyes.
"Oh hell no, that ain't happening. I don't even know you, absolutely not."
"Look." Jungkook rolls his eyes. "I'm not going anywhere, so you either trust I'm not going to look and bathe or you refuse and get to travel for hours smelling of rokkō droppings."
Y/N furrows her brow. "What the hell are rokkō droppings."
"Rokkō means horse, so basically horse droppings."
"Then why didn't you just say horse?"
Jungkook sighs, this woman is infuriating.
"I didn't say horse because we don't usually use that word here, look....I'm already telling you too much so just please decide what you're doing."
Y/N knows she stinks yet doesn't feel comfortable stripping right in front of some random guy she doesn't even know, no matter how charming he is.
"Look, I'm turning around." He turns slowly, arms crossed over his chest. "I give you my word as a quendu to not look, please just bathe so we can get back to the others."
Y/N scoffs, who even talks like that and what the hell is a quendu.
She's so confused.
"This place is like nothing I've ever seen before." Y/N decides to make conversation as she moves away from Jungkook, keeping her eyes on him as she undresses.
"I understand this must be difficult for you but once we get back to my home everything will be explained, if I try to explain things to you now it'll only upset and confuse you."
Y/N can't remember what happened after the beach yet for some reason even though she's a little wary and confused there's no fear....she should be afraid right? She's alone in a place unfamiliar to her with no memory of how she got there and now there's this strange man, easy on the eyes and charming enough who says he saved her. She shouldn't trust him but she finds herself wanting to do so. Maybe this has something to do with Martha and what happened earlier that day.
Could it be true? The tales Martha told her and the stories she read from the book.
"You okay? You've gone quiet." Jungkook asks.
"I'm fine, just thinking."
"About what?"
Y/N folds her clothes, placing them as close to the water as she can without getting them wet. "Do you know someone called Martha?"
Jungkook furrows his brow. "No, why?"
"No reason." Y/N keeps her eyes on him as she washes, the water refreshingly cool and smelling faintly of violets and lemon.
Everything is so different here.
The smell of the water, the forna, the way Jungkook speaks and the words he uses.
Something happened at the beach, something she desperately needs to remember before she can even contemplate piecing all of this together.
Is she scared....not really.
Is she confused and intrigued....totally.
To let the fear in, to be afraid of what's happening to her will only hinder the progress she needs to make. If she tries to escape she won't get far, she's weak and doesn't know the forest so would only end up getting lost. So the way she sees it there's not much choice, she must remain calm and attempt to figure out what the hell happened.
