Right of Asylum
Description
In which Joohyun and Sooyoung happen to barge into Seulgi’s placid life on a stormy night.
Seulgi stared at the women drenched from head to toe. Her eyes darted to her father before resting back on the strangers. In an attempt to speak, the low growl in the back of suddenly swerved into a squeak. “Er…”
“Seulgi, this is Joohyun,” he pointed to the shorter one for a moment before moving his finger towards her taller counterpart, “and this is Sooyoung. They’ll be staying with us for a while.”
Seulgi recalled the conversation she and her father had one afternoon, as they worked together to carry in the new shipments of hosts. Joohyun and Sooyoung had stayed for a little over a month, and the Pastor’s daughter was having a difficult time adjusting to the rather somber atmosphere the two dragged along with them.
“Why are they staying with us?”
Her father glanced at the two girls, sitting across the room in quiet conversation. “It’s a complicated matter, honey. Don’t worry, they’ll be gone within forty days.”
Seulgi furrowed her eyebrows in confusion, “Why forty?”
Her father sighed deeply, “Unfortunately, it’s the law.”
Foreword
Hey, guys. So after Consciousness (and Turmoil), this shall be my next story! I'm only posting this now because I literally thought of this cool idea this morning and figured I might as well get you guys ready for it.
This story is based around the old (very old) concept of sanctuary. Right of Asylum is pretty much the same thing, so I decided to name the story that.
If any of you guys have read the Hunchback of Notre Dame, you might know that he's declared Sanctuary and now is forced within the confines of the particular church he went into -- literally. (I learned about it today in Theology class lmao)
But anyway, this kind of has a similar theme. There was a point in the Church's history in which declaring Sanctuary actually had a ton of restrictions, and it varied from country to country. For this story, I'm going to be adopting the UK's old rules for it.
Long story short, this story is going to be taking place way, way, way, in the past and in South Korea. I don't have much information on Sanctuary being declared outside of Europe (or the Western world tbh) so I'm just kinda adapting it to North and South Korea.
So I apologize if any of the things I'm telling you sound inaccurate, but the concept was subject to many changes over history, and it was very different depending on which country it was declared in. Anyway, I found this to be an interesting concept, and I hope you fall in love with this story as much as I am as I try and write it.
Thank you everyone for your love and support with all my stories! Some of you have found me on instagram, facebook and twitter and it makes me laugh a lot.
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