"When I started to regain control of my abilities, I began to search for information on you, but I couldn't find much to go along with in your memories"
"With the help of your picture and the internet, I began my search"
"After months of searching, I finally found a lead on you, someone who claimed to have known you, I was on my way to meet him, I was traveling on a train on my way to your hometown, that's when I saw it out of the window, that place I came across, I recognized that place from your memories, it from your memories"
"A place you used to visit often."
"A place I used to visit often?"
With a snap of her finger, we were surrounded by greenery, atop the hill.
In front of me was the tree she had recognized from my memories.
"The tree on top of the hill?"
As a child I got lost once, that's when I came across the place for the first time.
My grandparents used to live close by, every year on holidays we did visit them.
When I was about 7 or 8 I ran away from home once.
That year my parents were too busy to visit my grandparents on holiday, So, we didn't visit them, I had run away from home to visit them. I took a train here, but I couldn't find it. I didn't know where my grandparents lived, I didn't know how to get there. In the end, I somehow ended up here after getting lost.
I spent the entire evening here sitting by that rock crying, I didn't know how to get back.
When the night came along, I was very scared and crying. In the end, a guy came by, he sat under the tree by himself looking at the sky and talked to the tree. Before he said
"Hey, kid?"
"Huh?"
Pointing at myself.
"Me?"
He turned his head towards me
"Do you see anyone else?"
"Why are you sitting here all alone?"
After I told him everything, he broke out in laughter and said
"Don't ever do that again"
"Do you want to make a wish?"
He took out a pen and a notepad from his coat and tore a piece of paper from his notepad before he got up and walked up to me.
he looked down towards me before he bends down on one of his knees and gave me the piece of paper and pen
"Here, Write down a Wish. don't show it to me, fold it before handing it to me or the wish will not come true, he said."
After I wrote down my wish and folded the paper as per his instruction, then handed it to him, he took a red string out of his coat pocket and tied it around the piece of paper before tying a bow on it.
"Get up, I will help you"
We went over to the tree, Where many pieces of paper like this hung on its branches.
As he tied the piece of paper to a branch of the tree, he said
"Do you know about this tree?"
"NO" I shook my head
"This tree is known as the ``Tree Of Promise ``. Once upon a time, there was a guy and a girl. They both fell in love with each other, but for them, they could not be together, In the end before they parted ways. They met each other under this tree for one last time, they made a promise to come to find each other there once again someday"
Tying it to the branch he turned on the flash on his phone and showed me the carving,
"Making the tree witness to their promise, They carved their promise into the tree, so they could come to find each other there again."
"Then?" I asked
"Then?"
"Then what? he said
He held my hand, and together we walked down the hill as he continued
"Then, they waited for each other, but never got to meet again, years passed away and they got old before the guy died and the girl was left with regrets, and she passed away too before they met each other again in afterlife and prayed to the deity to let them be together in there next life, to which the deity refused to cite their fate, their fate was to meet in every life before parting ways."
"Every life they met each other, fell in love and parted ways"
"Since then people have prayed to the tree to make their wish come true."
"What a cruel fate"
That's what he said at that time.
"An ill-fated relationship?" I said to myself,
Chae nodded her head.
"In the end, he ended up dropping me off at my grandparents. Now that I think about it, he was probably the same age as me."
"Then, did you meet the person who knew about me?
"Yes, I did, I did not learn much info from him he had only seen you a few times around the place"
"On the other hand, the tree knew a lot more"
"He told me a lot of things about you"
"He told me how you visited that place every year, and from his memories, I learned about how to find you"
"Also did you know he was not an ordinary tree?"
"He is not?" I was taken aback in surprise
"No, he is an eternal existence he has existed since the beginning, he is very knowledgeable"
"So, the story of the tree of promise might be true."
"Wow"
"Really?"
Knock...Knock
Knock on the room's door.
With the snap of the finger it disappeared, that greenery and the tree that place disappeared, we were standing in the room again
'Coming in" a man's voice.
I turned towards the door, facing the person as he entered
"Oh, Mr. Kim Meonjeo, your eyes are fixed, I see, wonderful," the person said with a grin on his face, an ominous one.