Joonmyun is a neurosurgeon with an office away from patient rooms and treatment, but Kyungsoo feels residual crises and heartbreak puddling on the linoleum as he follows the signs to the elevators. He keeps a tight lid on himself, holding onto the handle in his mind’s eye.

Passing a nurses station, he keeps his head tilted away but returns one girl’s bow, nearly walking into an unused IV pole when a singular voice pierces through him.

Not exactly a voice, but it’s a something very human and very raw but also very soft. Keeping everything else out, Kyungsoo pulls the fiber from his mind and matches it to a thread. Following that thread, he eventually stands outside a patient room in a wing he's never been to before.

The slider on the wall beside the door actually shows an engraved plaque, not just a print-out with a patient name, room number, and status.

PARK CHANYEOL

Inside, he only sees the lower half of someone lying on a hospital bed beneath a white sheet and green blanket. The room itself is even sparser than the usual room, although it doesn’t seem as sterile, somehow, managing to feel lived in yet cold.