[Choi watches as Soleum sets the photo at the now empty bike. He reaches into his pocket to retrieve his cigarettes, lighting one up in the time it takes for him to return to his side.]
Hmm, you didn't know that? It's a common statistic.
[Same with accidents - most occur close to home, since you spend most of your time close to home. For most people, this is the case, anyway. Choi looks over at the tandem bike, cigarette pursed between his lips.]
We can always leave them for tomorrow. This detour took longer than I expected. [Seriously, he was just going to ditch the ghost. Leave it to the Destruction King to send it off proper.] Baekho asked me to leave something in that area, back there. They've found a lot of reports of things being lost lately. Shoes, clothing, bags... I thought a bike would be too heavy for a ghost.
[He's half joking. They were trying to establish timing - if items were more likely to be stolen overnight versus in the morning versus the afternoon. Apparently time of day isn't much of a problem for this one.]
[This may or may not reveal that he lost his bike on purpose and dragged Soleum out here not due to an accident, but - also, all disasters, big and small, are accidents. So it's okay. Plus, he hadn't been expecting to return with this much data on the situation. A lost bike was all he planned to report.]
But I was serious about the tteokbokki. Should we stop and pick some up on the way back? There's a good place in Namdaemun... [Again, is he offering or just craving it, who knows.] And Jaekwan will be jealous you got to ride with me on a tandem bike, he'll need something to soothe his heart. What do you say?
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Hmm, you didn't know that? It's a common statistic.
[Same with accidents - most occur close to home, since you spend most of your time close to home. For most people, this is the case, anyway. Choi looks over at the tandem bike, cigarette pursed between his lips.]
We can always leave them for tomorrow. This detour took longer than I expected. [Seriously, he was just going to ditch the ghost. Leave it to the Destruction King to send it off proper.] Baekho asked me to leave something in that area, back there. They've found a lot of reports of things being lost lately. Shoes, clothing, bags... I thought a bike would be too heavy for a ghost.
[He's half joking. They were trying to establish timing - if items were more likely to be stolen overnight versus in the morning versus the afternoon. Apparently time of day isn't much of a problem for this one.]
[This may or may not reveal that he lost his bike on purpose and dragged Soleum out here not due to an accident, but - also, all disasters, big and small, are accidents. So it's okay. Plus, he hadn't been expecting to return with this much data on the situation. A lost bike was all he planned to report.]
But I was serious about the tteokbokki. Should we stop and pick some up on the way back? There's a good place in Namdaemun... [Again, is he offering or just craving it, who knows.] And Jaekwan will be jealous you got to ride with me on a tandem bike, he'll need something to soothe his heart. What do you say?