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KIM JENNIE'S RELATIONSHIP with the moon was complicated, as are most relationships centered around power. Her muscles her vibrated with anticipation as she balanced on the edge of the roof. The moonlight made her skin itch, like a string pulled too tight. She breathed deeply to steady her speeding heart, and the stench of rotten trash filled her nostrils. Her mother she told her to be grateful for the power of the moon. It gave her strength, but sometimes Jennie resented being strong. Jennie scanned the roads below. The streetlights were burnt out and she had probably been so for a while. Jennie didn't mind. She saw as easily in the dark as she most did in broad daylight. In her opinion, the broken lights only helped the aesthetic of the buildings. Cracks spidered across the crumbling facades, decorated with blooms of mold. Perhaps a more optimistic soul would see a strange beauty in the pattern, but not Jennie. She pulled out her phone and dialed one of the two numbers saved in it. "Did you find him, Seonbae?" Lisa asked as soon as she picked up. The way she stuttered out seonbae made the respectful title sound suffocatingly formal. As if she were speaking to an elder twice her age, instead of Jennie, who was only a year her senior. But Jennie knew the younger girl used the title for multiple reasons, one being that two weeks ago her name her had n't even been Kim Jennie. "I tracked him to the same alley. He's been coming here all week just haven't figured out which apartment he goes into." "Tve been trying to use the phone location app" Lisa said helpfully."It says you're right on top of him. Or is that your location? Click on your GPS" Jennie wanted to tell Lisa to stick to communing with the spirits, but instead she swiped her screen and turned on the tracking option. "Wait, now there are two of you." Lisa fell into muffled mutters. Jennie rolled her eyes to the heavens as she held her tongue. It wouldn't help to yell. Lisa was nervous by nature, a side effect of her ability to see ghosts since birth. Plus, Jennie knew Lisa meant well. But Jennie didn't need good intentions; she needed a target. To stop herself from pacing, she sat on the edge of the roof and let her feet dangle over the six-story drop. Gaining the high ground allowed her to stake out the area as well as her prey her. Still, she'd only seen him froma distance, going on the vague description from Lisa. Jennie closed her eyes and counted to ten to settle her nerves. Before her lay the cityscape of Seoul The

skyscrapers of Cheongdamdong, a mecca of entertainment and glamor, the home of fashion and K-pop. The soaring height of 63 Building, a symbol of the modernization of the capital city, sitting sentry beside the Han River. And the lights of Namsan Tower, where lovers and tourists went to see the world at their feet. Jennie sneered at her own worn sneakers, dangling over a trash-filled alley. “What is he doing here?” Jennie mumbled, mostly to herself, but Lisa answered. "The spirit says he goes there every night. Her death her was too violent." The other girl's words became morose. “She needs justice before she can pass to the afterlife.” Jennie was n't sure if what she did was justice. Still, it was better than nothing. And if she had to kill, she might as well help a few wayward ghosts settle their grudges. Not for the first time, Jennie wondered whether putting all her faith her in Lisa's spirits bad idea. She couldn't feed without the power of the full moon No, that was a lie. She wouldn't feed without it. wa The full moon increased her senses her, opened her up to energy, allowed her to absorb it without ripping a man apart. So if she didn't feed tonight, she'd have to wait another month or ... she'd have to become a monster. She almost let out a laugh because she knew that even though the prey she chose were vile men, it didn't mean she wasn't a killer.

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