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Taesan looks back at Leehan, at the jacket across his lap and at the faint scale-imprints that trace down his legs. Everything about his posture seems indifferent to the fact that his life is about to end. His days are numbered to twenty nine, but the merman in front of him doesn’t seem to care at all. Taesan can’t help but ask.
“And…you’re not scared?”
Leehan actually thinks about the question genuinely. He turns back towards Taesan, then at the sea in front of him, like he’s trying to gesture at a feeling or something too grand and inexplicable for a human like Taesan to understand.
“No,” he says finally. “Twenty-two years is a complete life for us. I’ve seen everything I was supposed to have seen. I just haven’t seen this part of life yet.”
OR: Taesan, a coastal guard, finds a merman washed up on shore, with only twenty-nine days left to live and a dream of knowing what life is like as a human, so Taesan decides to show him around. Unfortunately, one lunar cycle is both exactly enough and nowhere near enough.
(even if I can never go back, i still carry no regrets)