Sacrifice
Description
Once a year, Krystal must retreat from her second identity, and report to her clan to serve her duties. The Jewels Clan, whom has been connected with Krystal's family for generations, and of which the Jungs can't seperate from. The week spent in the clan when it is that time, each member is given a task, a task that can be minor to major, a person or thing, protecting or exterminating; they are expected to fulfill it by the time the Clan has their next once a year meeting.
Krystal's new task for the year is a burden, a responsibility, and time consuming; watch over Kang Minhyuk. Given freedom from any discretion, Krystal just plans to befriend him so that she would have access to necessary information and convenience that would better help her with her task, to be beside him, to be able to watch over him. This starts to get complicated when the fine boundary she set up around herself starts to crumble, and Minhyuk starts to slowly be a bigger and bigger part of her second life, and slowly starting to shift more and more away of him being just a task.
Watching over him, is that really all there is to it? Or is there something bigger? Are they perhaps, just a pair of pawns of a bigger battle between the Jewels and its enemy? Unfortunately for Krystal, the more Minhyuk becomes significant in her life, the harder her future decisions will be.
Foreword
6:00 AM, September 30
It is that day, that time of the year. The day all members of the Jewels fear, yet are still volunteering anyway to embrace this obligation. The clan that has brought these particular families together for generations, sharing the responsibilities of these tasks set for them to continue to sustain the clan, to sustain us.
I sift my way through to my closet to get my all black outfit for the occasion. I look pretty sharp, sleek, and confident, a necessary, yet seemingly genetically inherited characteristic of the Jewel Clan members. Despite this, the look definitely stook out like a sore thumb compared to the environment, as my room was a colorful mess of clothes, papers, electronic devices, and makeup. True for the other members as well, the lives we live daily are in no way a representation of our secret clan status, a disguise necessary as well as relieving.
I go downstairs, and see my sister Jessica waiting for me.
"You ready Soo Jung?"
"Lets get this over with Unnie"
We go through the secret door disguised amongst bookshelves, in our library. the door lead us underground, until we finally reached the familiar, yet still to this day, unwelcoming elevator.
"Gaja Soo Jung ah" I give her a nod
We entered, mentally preparing ourselves for what will be expected of us for the next year, tightly holding hands. Down and down, we went.
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