I had a dream.
It was a dream of simply walking over a snowfield blanketed in white.
The weather was cold and biting.
However, I didn’t feel it as purely cold.
[Yaaah!]
Gu Ryeonghwa was running around excitedly in the falling snow.
Seeing that, I said.
[You’ll fall like that.]
[Heeheehee!]
She didn’t seem to be listening.
If she kept running like that, it wouldn’t be long before…
[Eek!]
[Ah.]
Sure enough.
Gu Ryeonghwa tripped and fell with a splat while running.
[Waaah]
She must have fallen pretty hard, as Gu Ryeonghwa burst into tears.
Seeing that, I let out a sigh and approached.
[I told you not to run.]
[Oppaah…]
Her cheeks and face were all covered in snow.
I brushed it off with my hand.
[Hee…]
[When are you ever going to grow up?]
At most, she was seven or eight years old.
For someone who never grew up for the rest of his life after that, it was an embarrassingly shameful thing to say.
Thinking back on it now, when she was young, she seemed to talk well and be quite smart.
I wonder why she turned…