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Kyungsoo knows they’re coming for him.

Fifteen seconds later, right on time, the front door is kicked down and the sounds of stomping and loud voices fill his house as his hunters finally track him down after three long months.

There’s no time to think, no time to plan, and Kyungsoo rushes over to the window, ripping down the screen even as the bedroom door slams open and they enter the room in multitudes of faceless black hordes, screeching and advancing and whispering his name.

Black, crow-like fingers reach for him and catch onto his shirt, but Kyungsoo’s finally gotten his body through the window opening and he pulls away, hearing his shirt tear. Then he’s standing right on the edge of the roof and time seems to stop right then and there as the full sunlight pours over him and he feels as if he’s suspended in that moment, making a decision that will make or break it all.

Time starts up again as if it had never stopped.

Kyungsoo jumps.

For the first split second, his eyes are closed and he feels calm and just absolutely fine. When he opens his eyes and sees the blacktop rushing towards him, he knows what he has to do.

Every second is precious and he cannot waste any of it. Kyungsoo closes his eyes again and thinks with all the strength he has in his mind, imagining himself curving up and pulling out of the freefall, and he replays this over and over again his mind, filling his mind with only this and letting it expand and become every particle in his body and-

-and he opens his eyes and the street is right there under his nose but he hasn’t crashed, he’s hovering an inch above the blacktop and he gains altitude and rises, free and unconstrained. Though slow at first, Kyungsoo shoots up faster and faster until he’s broken through the clouds, and when he dips back down the entirety of the neighborhood is sprawling far under him, and he cannot describe the jubilation in his chest that makes his throat tight and his eyes glassy with unspoken feeling.

He flips and twirls in midair a couple times, laughing because of the sheer impossibility of it all.

They will never give up on catching him, he knows this. Even now, they will have sensed that he is not dead and will be regrouping to start the chase again.

But Kyungsoo will never let them catch him. He will have to fly and hide and run away for the rest of his life, and he knows this too.

But if there’s another thing Kyungsoo knows, it’s that he can keep on going forever.

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