Yu-Jun sat at a bench beside the Han river reading a book and looked up to see a young girl of about 5 or 6 walking along the path while talking with a man that held her hand. In the little girl's other hand she held a small pewter dragon that hung on a chain around her neck and Yu-Jun froze. His heart raced. He'd finally accepted the fact that he would never see the little fox girl again in this life time. He'd told fate he'd move on with his life if only he could see her again in his next life, yet here was destiny taunting him with memories of a world he'd never forget. The little girl's head turned to him as she pointed at an ice cream stand behind him asking the man for ice cream. She had large, round, gray eyes. His book fell from his hands as he stood abruptly. His thoughts clouded his vision as he became lost in them. There was no way. They hadn't actually had sex. Was it still possible? How- Why would she be here? Who was this man? If it was impossible where did she get the dragon, why did she have it? Yu-Jun felt as though he stood in a dream.

"Mister?" A small hand tapped his side and he looked down. He saw Evie's nose in her features. She held up his book and he took it from her stooping down.

"That's a very nice necklace. Where did you get it?"

"Yuna, leave him alone." He handed the girl an ice cream. "I'm sorry sir."

"No worries, I was only asking about her necklace. I've actually been looking for something like it." Yu-Jun smiled at the man.

"It was a gift. I don't know where it came from. Sorry." The man said before tugging the little girl away.

Yu-Jun sat back on the bench. Perhaps she moved on. It couldn't be his child. Right? It was the only explanation that he could come up with and he smiled to himself perhaps she was alright after all. Yu-Jun sat on the bench well into the evening watching the sky as the stars began to wink into existence. Someone sat down beside him and he spoke to them without looking. "Life is a strange creature, is it not?"

"It truly is," came the voice from beside him.

His heart stopped beating if only for a second and he looked to the person beside him.

There she sat a smile upon her lips and tears rolling down her cheeks. Her hair covered half her face.

Yu-Jun was too stunned to move and could barely utter a word but still he managed to say, "I don't understand."

She told him about the little girl he'd seen in the park that day. She was her niece. The necklace had been Evie's and she'd given it to her that day because her niece had always admired it. The flight they'd met on was because Evie was visiting her sister who'd been pregnant and lived in Korea. She told him how she wanted to attend his concerts but was too ashamed because of how she looked.

Yu-Jun lifted his hand to touch her face and she backed up a bit, then froze. Yu-Jun's hand stayed frozen in the air. "Don't you trust me?"

Evie put her head down, her heart twisted at that phrase. "Yes, but if I don't like my face why should you."

Yu-Jun put his fingers beneath her chin and lifted her head. "Don't you know it was never about your looks to begin with?" He brushed her hair from her face and leaned in kissing the jagged scar on her cheek that ran from above her eye nearly to the corner of her mouth his heart broke. What had happened after he'd left?

Evie kept her eyes cast down and reached for his arm tugging his sleeve up. She traced the fox on his tattoo.

"I never forgot you." He said, leaning his head under hers trying to get her to look at him. "Would you be willing to hang out with me and we can get to know each other?"

She looked up, there was a light in her eyes, "Are you asking me out?"

He nodded.

"Is that allowed?" She asked cautiously.

"There will always be a place for you in my life." He said and she threw her arms around him. They held onto each other tightly. Finally the world seemed right.