The Rotten Ones
The rook sailed southward, its black wings spread wide against the blue sky while Lee Sung-Ki watched it go from the earth below. He did not know what kind of bird it was — he knew little of birds at all — but he knew that it could fly, and as it disappeared from his sight into the backdrop of green trees on distant hills, he wished that he could follow. To be away from the stone and steel, to see forbidden cities — that’d be truly something, Sung-Ki thought. Not today, though. Today was school, and hunger, as yesterday was, as tomorrow would likely be, and it was not his lot to...
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