Chapter 23. Cross (4)

It was still light out. The sky was intensely blue, without a hint of twilight. Heeju stared blankly out the window, unable to tell whether the sky was always that blue or if it only looked that way because she was looking at it from up so high. “Suhyeon, come sit down now.” “What about the tea? We said we’d have a cup, didn’t we?” Suhyeon was busy. The click of her heels echoed without pause. She opened the lunch box in Heeju’s lap, set it out on the desk, and popped a fish cutlet right into her mouth.