Minute 7:01 AM

Minute 7:01 AM

No, it's a Korean song after all. Just the chorus is in English. It's
trendy. It's cool.

Was there a dream back there, somewhere around the seven o'clock
chime? Are there snatches of a warm place, or a mystical beast? If
there was a dream, now it's all evaporated, just a fog around the
verdant mountains that hold in the heat of a subterranean elemental.
Here and there inhuman air finds a way in to chill the skin.

Aaron's face is flattened against the pillow, grotesquely deformed and
inanimate. The same song plays on.