“Kyungsoo,” Lu Han calls out softly. He looks happy, content, as he contemplates his words before speaking again. “You’ll be able to tell, right? With your power?”   Kyungsoo doesn’t understand, brows furrowing in confusion as he stares at his friend before the other looks away back up towards the never-ending blue and purple shaded sky. He stares at him a bit longer, admiring the smooth skin and finally being able to see the one scar on the man’s upper lip, mostly healed but still visible in the bright daylight.   “You’ll know when it’s time to go back, right? You should be able to tell when it’s the time to go back home.”   Kyungsoo wants to say, “No, I can’t tell – I don’t understand,” but Lu Han is turning to give him a small smile and the air is taken out of his lungs.   “Infuse the ashes that will be given to you into my ten remaining crystal balls. Keep watch over them. Okay, Kyungsoo?”   He doesn’t understand. There are twelve of them. Whose ashes is he talking about?   “You’re the only one who will remember and understand.”       Kyungsoo frowns as he stares up into the blue sky, headphones resting around his neck as music plays softly through them. There’s a nice piano melody playing and it’s the only thing keeping him calm in the midst of his nightmares. The dream with Lu Han comes every few days and he’s done what he had asked of him months ago, after they were suddenly released from the series of probing and experiments they were subjected to for one full earth year.   He still doesn’t know what the point of it all is. They lost their powers when two of their eldest died, the scientists realizing they weren’t any different from other human beings except for the fact they had supernatural powers. They simply tried to find ways to control them in the beginning, hoping to utilize them for some sort of future war, but it never happened, not when they exhausted and experimented on Yixing to his ultimate limit. With him gone, their balance was thrown off, not so much that it changed them drastically, but enough to know one of their own was gone.   That was when Lu Han suddenly appeared in his dream in that dreadful place, being able to expand his powers even more to extend himself into another’s dream without any horrible side effects. He was able to collect the ashes the scientists turned Yixing into, finding a way to give it to him in the middle of the tests, but he was foolish to not understand the meaning of it until he poured it onto the ground and watched as the ashes disappeared within the earth underneath his feet.   Yixing came back to life unexpectedly, Kyungsoo remembering Jongdae once telling