Narita Airport at eight in the morning should not have had this many people outside it.
Soorin heard them before the bus fully stopped. The chant was already running. She knew that sound now. She had not known it a year ago.
Gleams.
A lot of them.
Signs in Korean and Japanese and English held above their heads, light sticks even at this hour, the chant starting the moment the first bus window became visible from the barrier.
HAEL. RYU. JAY. KYN. SION.
Over and over.
Daehyun looked out the window.
"They have been here since five," one of the staff said from the seat behind them. "The security team confirmed it. Some of them overnight."
Daehyun looked at Soorin.
She was looking at the crowd.
The chant got louder as the buses pulled closer.
"They came to say goodbye," she said.
"They came to say goodbye," he confirmed.
