- Carol (2015) au / The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (if y'all haven't read this masterpiece, please do T_T), inevitably set in the 50's nyc

- implied younger woman/older woman relationship

- Chaeyoung-centric !

- word count is like 2k +++

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4:35AM

There is a kind of unexplainable, unsaid beauty that gleams upon everything during the wee hours of the morning, when dawn is barely starting. They say it’s a paradox, only existing and beautiful at first light then false by noon.

But right now, as Chaeyoung stares at the sleeping figure of Mina, who is comfortably dozing in the depths of slumber, she starts to think that this isn’t a paradox after all. The beauty that the moonlight gleam creates isn’t temporary.

To Chaeyoung, this has been one of the most beautiful sights she’s set her eyes on in a very long time; in her eyes, Mina was everything that was great - even incomparable to the overwhelming Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island that she’s visited when she was seven, or to the beautiful, but fickle Spring Snow that graces New York every April.

And in the morning later on, when Chaeyoung wakes up with the sun beaming down at her and her legs, which would still be tangled in the white covers with Mina’s, neither will she think of the things she felt in those moments as false - nor will she forget.