[Dokja draws her into a careful hug and Sooyoung immediately smacks him (weakly) on the chest, then she curls her hands into his shirt and thinks about all those times she's touched dokja, so much of it violent and brief. how she'd stabbed 49% of him, and watched him bleed out.

She won't stab him this time. She feels like he's been stabbed enough,]

You and I both know that it's not enough.

[Because Sooyoung has the Avatar ability, and out of everyone else in their group, only Dokja would really know exactly what that would entail.]

That guy likes tomatoes. He doesn't remember Ways of Survival -- he doesn't even read it on his phone. He's missing memories -- and...

[and then he'd told them how dokja wouldn't have wanted this -- wouldn't have wanted them to regress and look for him again. that the person sooyoung wants so desperately to be fake would be the one person who understands dokja the best.

she sees the irony there, and it makes her cry a little harder -- tears of anger and self-recrimination and embarrassment, and she wants to lash out like always, be a little cruel in return for something that's not even dokja's fault --]

...We went back. Yoo Joonghyuk's Stigma... It let us all regress.