C21 Elena Returns to Seoul

The woman who stepped off the plane was not the Elena Park that Seoul remembered.

Hair shorter now. A subtle chestnut tint instead of black.

Her frame leaner, her gait slower, as if she'd learned to walk in a city where people listened before they looked.

Her name on the passport was Choi Eun-kyung.

Her visa issued by a Hong Kong intermediary.

But her eyes?

Still the same