He couldn’t remember when he fell asleep. Maru looked at the phone by his head. He vaguely remembered listening to Gaeul humming. It seemed that he passed out after humming along to the familiar tune. He clutched his hazy head and sat up. Although he was tired from the all-nighter, he felt a lot better. He checked the duration of the phone call. It turned out that he had been listening for twenty minutes. There was no way he hung up first, so it meant that Gaeul had been humming for him for twenty minutes straight.

Maru made a call, but Gaeul didn’t pick up, as though she was sleeping after eating lunch. He left behind a text message thanking her for last night since he didn’t want to wake her up.

He washed up lightly before checking the time. It was 1 p.m. Maru thought back to what the assistant director said before and looked outside. The sky was pretty clear considering it spat out a bunch of snow yesterday. He looked at the intermittent clouds before looking at the floor. It was a world of white....