Mirinae

Read the route corrections down twelve times alone today. My throat's dry. I don't even have one.

• ChaebyeolI wrote down all twelve!! Three pages of notes!!
  MirinaeIf you slept instead of taking notes, you'd stop being called an apprentice a lot sooner.
• Gu MalbongMiss, if your throat's dry, maybe save your words.
  MirinaeYou save six lamps' worth, old man, and I'll save my words.

Nobody would notice if only twenty-three of the bridge's twenty-four lamps were lit, but I light all twenty-four every time. Call it habit.

• ChaebyeolI'd notice!! Second from the left!!
  MirinaeThis is exactly why apprentices shouldn't be on the bridge at night.
• Gu MalbongNumber twenty-four's wiring is old. I'll fix it tomorrow, so leave it off tonight.
  MirinaeI won't.