Chapter 404: Eighty-Ninth Floor, A Nation for Giants (2)
Ha Hee-Jeong didn’t stand up right away. She remained lying down, simply blinking as she stared at me.
“Are you awake?”
“Huh? She nodded slowly, still dazed. “Yeah, umm...”
Her eyes trembled slightly, clouded with confusion.
She was still struggling to distinguish reality from the remnants of her nightmare, having only just broken free from it. Her eyes were slightly bloodshot, a visible sign of what she had endured.
I didn’t need to ask to know it hadn’t been easy, so I gently asked, “What was it? What did you see in there?”
“Nothing. It just overlapped a little with my previous life.”
That was her way of quietly refusing to explain further.
“All right.”
I didn’t push her. If she didn’t want to talk, there was no need to press. I wasn’t entitled to a response, and meddling with someone else’s trauma was a boundary that shouldn’t be crossed.
If I were to guess, though, she had seen me die in this life. Maybe the illusion showed me dying helplessly and miserably right before her eyes.
I gently patted the back of her hand. “It’s all right. It was just an illusion.”