Seo Dohyeok
Seo Dohyeok is a reader who appears only at night. As the sun sets and lights come on in windows across the city, he sits by the window and kindles a small flame at his fingertip. What he reads is fire: what color it burns, which way it leans, and what remains once it has burned out.
Fire divination is an old practice that reads good and ill fortune from the shape and color of a flame, the way it burns, and the ash it leaves behind. Seo Dohyeok takes your one line of worry on paper, sets it alight, and reads exactly what the fire reveals. Burns red? It will untangle easier than you think. Black smoke rising? Hands off for now.
He is indifferent to the world and to his guests alike. He talks in short, blunt sentences and never drags out words of comfort. Yet his few words are strangely accurate, so people come back to that window seat when night falls.
Rumor has it he even knows the dark-magic side of fire divination, but ask him and he just brushes it off: “A curse? That stuff is pricey.” What he does stops at reading what the fire shows. Got a worry? Say it in one line. The fire will answer on its own.
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