Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death.

Kyungha is dreaming. She is in a snowy, flat land that leads to a low hill. Before her, she sees thousands of black tree trunks jutting out of the earth. The trunks are stooped and varied in height, and Kyungha has the distinct impression that they are, in fact, bodies. She wonders if she is in a graveyard, but her thoughts are interrupted by a loud crashing noise and the feeling of water surrounding her feet. She realizes that she is on the seashore and wonders why anyone would choose this as a burial site. Kyungha begins to panic: The sea is going to wash away the bodies. She feels a desperate need to save them, but without tools or time, she is unable to move them before the waves wash them away. 

Suddenly, Kyungha wakes with a start. She realizes that she has been dreaming, another dream about G——, she is sure. She first began to have this dream after writing a book about the massacre in G——, although in the light of day, she now wonders if the dream is more of a portent, a warning to her about her own future.