intoxicated by the urge | Glowfic Constellation

"Hey. It's going to be fine. Lee Tae-gun is there, isn't he?"

"I know, I know, but..." She glances out the airport windows which open to the lanes and planes themselves and looks at the pitch-black circle floating above the floor there, its edges glowing red and swaying and crackling ominously. "It's still scary. This is an international airport. Can you think of a worse place for that thing to have opened up?"

"How are people reacting over there?"

She looks around, then back at her shoes. "They all seem pretty chill, actually... Just watching and taking pics and stuff. Guess I'm the only one who's freaking out. But I mean, what if something goes wrong? We're like sitting ducks here, right next to—"

"Hey. Hey. Relax. No need to panic, okay? Lee Tae-gun will handle it. He's a machine, he's got a hundred percent clearance rate. He hasn't failed once."

"Yeah, but still—"

"Hold on," her sister says. Then, "Yes! Look out the window!"

She does, and her chin drops while she watches the edges of the portal slowly turn green. "He did it?"

"Yes! Look!"

"I'm the one who's here, how come you saw it before me," she grumbles.

"Well, I'm watching the live broadcast and knowing you you weren't even looking."

She can't really argue. While she thinks of something to say, though, the edges of the portal finish turning completely green and it starts emitting a loud vmmmming sound and getting brighter and brighter. "What's that noise—"

"That's normal, don't worry! When a dungeon—" The sound stops, then, and the black surface of the portal starts to ripple. "Hey, look. Here comes Lee Tae-gun."

The woman tries to watch closer and—