YOUMIN
"Hey, psst!"
I feel someone against my back in the darkness. It's hard to breathe through the cloth, but I recognize Haein.
"Hae-Haein."
"I got you, little kid." He says, all muffled. I feel him tugging at the ropes against my wrist, trying to untangle the knot. "Don't move."
My breaths get shorter.
I feel him working furiously. I'd gotten the mission of this simulation a long time ago— to escape before suffocating.
"What about Shian...?"
"Don't know where he is." He says, and I hear him starting to run out of air inside his cloth. "I found you first."
The tugging gets more urgent as time passes.
"Dammit."
Then it's finally off. The ropes slide from my wrists, and I hurry with the cloth around my head when a sudden noise makes me freeze.
A thump.
It's the sound of someone collapsing.
"Hurry!" Haein hisses, voice choked. The moment I get my cloth off, I move to him and jerk the cloth from his head.
Then I quickly turn towards the sound I'd heard.