Falling-Wish

Sunny remembers sitting at a neighbor’s dinner table with their younger sibling, only two years younger than them, Sunny's feet kicking at the air as the neighbor regales them with stories about adventurers and dragons and heroes. Sunny remembers sitting on their couch with a babysitter as they help to sew patches onto ripped clothes, their younger siblings acting out some play or the other that they were making up on the spot. Sunny remembers walking through the Godsgoing festival with their youngest sibling in their arms, some money jingling in their pockets as they herd all four of their siblings through the streets to enjoy the festivities. They see Deok-Su at the end of the street, and the kits who can walk immediately run over to say hi. In all of their earliest memories, their parents are usually absent. Their dad does manual labor at a warehouse, moving boxes and inventory to various houses. Their mom cleans the houses of rich families, coming home smelling of disinfectant