They never spoke of debts or ghosts or the things that chased them through the rain. They only trained. Ate convenience store triangle kimbap at 2 AM. Fell asleep on opposite ends of the same narrow futon.
It was Jinx. Blue hair wild. Knuckles split. Teeth bared in a feral grin.
Instead, he tossed him a pair of spare hand wraps. “You’re gonna hold the pads for me today. Don’t cry if I break your wrist.”
He was running. Not from the loan sharks this time, but from the silence of an empty hospital room. The beep of a flatlined monitor. The weight of a debt no amount of fighting could ever repay.
Jinx stared at the bowl. Then at Dan. A slow, unfamiliar warmth uncurled in his chest. He pulled the blanket off Dan and wrapped it around his own shoulders instead, then lay back down, staring at the ceiling.
They never spoke of debts or ghosts or the things that chased them through the rain. They only trained. Ate convenience store triangle kimbap at 2 AM. Fell asleep on opposite ends of the same narrow futon.
It was Jinx. Blue hair wild. Knuckles split. Teeth bared in a feral grin.
Instead, he tossed him a pair of spare hand wraps. “You’re gonna hold the pads for me today. Don’t cry if I break your wrist.”
He was running. Not from the loan sharks this time, but from the silence of an empty hospital room. The beep of a flatlined monitor. The weight of a debt no amount of fighting could ever repay.
Jinx stared at the bowl. Then at Dan. A slow, unfamiliar warmth uncurled in his chest. He pulled the blanket off Dan and wrapped it around his own shoulders instead, then lay back down, staring at the ceiling.
