Prologue

He could honestly never recall a time that they actually called him. Aside from that time in the 70’s when they were pretending to be human, and that was on the phone, but Luhan always knew when they wanted him.

    “What do Larry, Moe, and Curly want now?” Luhan asked himself.

    “We want you to stop talking to yourself.” One of them said. He always saw the past clear as day so he needed his brothers (… Luhan thought they were brothers even though they didn’t look anything alike) to watch after him. He preferred the name Sungmin.

    “And we want to tell you what we saw in your future.” The brother in charge of the present said. He used the name Hyukjae.

    “We?” the last brother (in charge of seeing the future) scoffed, “you live in two-second increments. The one you were just in and the one you are currently in.” He went by the name Donghae.

They liked Luhan and he couldn’t fathom why. It was his job to take souls places. He was the universe’s least popular chauffeur service.

He watched the three men argue about what they do with a small smirk and a raised eyebrow. They finally remembered why they had called for the psychopomp.

    “Oh … right …” Donghae said.

    “We think you’re lonely,” Sungmin said. “... and you need some excitement in your life.”

    “I’m fine,” Luhan assured them.

    “The fates don’t think so,” Hyukjae said.

The brothers were the only ones who could communicate with the fates. If they were ever alive, they must have long ago been driven insane by this … gift.

Luhan waited patiently for them to start talking again.

    “You will know who they are.”

    “They will quickly endear themselves to you.”

    “They?” Luhan asked.

    “Two of them,” Donghae said.

    “At the same time?” the redhead asked.

They all looked at Donghae. “Two separate incidents … but you’ll feel it in your gut. You will be their salvation as they are yours.”

    “… Right.” The redhead tapped his foot impatiently, looking for further clarification.

    “What are you waiting for?” Sungmin asked.

    “Go on.”

Luhan rolled his eyes and went to the surface with a mumbled ‘whatever’.