Day 10 - 01:15 AM
Zai was abruptly woken from her restless sleep by a buzzing sound and her subsequent fall from the bed after she had tried to reach her phone. Sluggishly pressing the 'answer' button and lifting the device to her ear, she did her best to cover up a yawn with her hand as she responded to the call.
"...Hello..?"
"ZAI!"
"AH!" It took a substantial amount of self-control to keep herself from reflexively flinging the phone across the room, but she had still angled it as far away from her head as possible, her arm outstretched completely. After a few tense moments, she brought it back up to her ear.
"Zen? What is it? It's like...one in the morning.."
"Zai are you okay!?"
"Yeah of course, why wouldn't I be?"
"I...I had a dream about you." Of course. She had forgotten that Zen had some form of psychic dreaming...thing.. that alerted him to important events. However that worked. She still had to play it off, though, as he couldn't know that she already knew about that ability of his.
"Dreaming of me? I'm flattered, but still, isn't it a bit late to flirt with me?"
"N-no I mean- Agh! Zai, you don't understand!"
"Then explain it to me, Zenny. I'm all ears." She could hear his labored breathing in the background, and part of her felt terrible about making him worry so much. But she couldn't just tell him that she hadn't gotten kidnapped in the middle of the night without any sort of preface.
"Zai I...I'm sorry. I woke you up so late for nothing."
"It's okay. You were obviously really upset about something. Did you want to talk about it?"
"Ah..no...no it's better I don't bother you any more than I already have. Please go back to sleep."
"Okay, Zenny. Maybe try dreaming of Jaehee instead of me?"
"Ahah.. Perhaps I'll dream of all three of us. Does that sound nice?"
"It sounds great, darling." She could hear his choked cry of surprise at the term of endearment, and even though she was exhausted, Zai still managed to giggle a little at his response.
"Y-you're so cute, Zai... Goodnight. Sweet dreams."
"Sweet dreams to you as well, Zenny." The line disconnected with a click, and then Zai was climbing back into bed, sleepier and more content than before. Her phone lie absently on the floor where she'd left it, too tired to think about putting it in its proper place.
As the soft sound of her breathing echoed through the room, the screen lit up with code.
/ Unknown: It's almost time. /
/ Unknown: I'll be seeing you very soon, Zai. /