✦ Full Past Life Story

It was in the autumn of the twenty-sixth year of King Seonjo, in the midst of the Imjin War, that you first met in a small mountain village in Chungcheong Province. One was the son of a yangban household, having come out as a militia. The other was a young woman of a yangban house, fleeing the war. That night the Japanese broke into the village. One pulled the other into the mountains and fled. In a small hut deep in the mountains, the two of you spent three days together. Until the Japanese passed. Through those three days, you spoke deeply. Of the war's cruelty, of departed family, of fear.