"No," he muttered under his breath, not slowing. "Don't worry."
The window flickered faintly in response.
And he kept running.
Si Hon didn't slow down.
The forest still blurred past him in streaks of white and gray, breath misting in front of his face, feet's crushing through the thin layers of snow. The cold bit at his cheeks, but the steady rhythm of running kept his body warm.
(Oh, and this passive of mine.)
He looked beside him.
「Stabilize Body Heat — Reduces feeling of cold slightly: is active.」
Then his eyes lowered briefly.
To the ring.
The one that was once a ring that glowed a random color, that now a faint black, glossy substance coiled snug around his finger, almost lazily. It pulsed once.
Then again.
Alive.
"…Hey," he muttered between breaths. "You. The clingy wrapped on my finger thing."
The small, slightly dark window flickered into existence beside his hand while he was still running.
「아빠…? What is it?」
He swallowed.
