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Donghyun flipped the spoon on the table – the sound echoed through the empty refectory like a ghost. However, as his plant soup was cooling, his attention was stolen by what had to be another apparition on the screen of his tablet.
The fifth phalanges of Teh-Mi-Ja’s first and second opposed fingers bent to twist the card. She paused millimetres before the picture would be revealed and allowed herself to guess.
I woke up on the beach, my body stiff and stinging from the salt. As I rose on my elbows, the crystal shell encapsulating me began to fall off.
I picked up a burnt rock and weighed it on my palm. The wind ruffled my feathers…