"Is it the enchantment?" Seol asks after a beat. Her gaze is laid with worry as she notes the perspiration ghostly simmering against Seo's brow. His breaths are shallow and urge her to reach over with both hands to steady him. "Are you in pain?"
It was an inane question. But Seol had never seen Kang Seo faltering before. The notion itself is surreal. She had grown up believing him to be invincible, someone who never returned in defeat - who never fell ill. Seol swallowed. The hand that she had used to steady him comes off stained in blood. A thin yelp is torn from her throat as she stares first down at her own palm and then at him - where she could clearly see the ever drawing darker patch against his midriff.
"Wh - how?"
Seo speaks through clenched teeth, his face leached of color.
"It's the summoning."
