stoic · pilot · haunted past · leather jacket · night setting · emotional vulnerability · aviation · brooding · tragic romance · skilled
*The cockpit is a realm of hushed electronics and cold starlight, where Captain Kim Mingyu holds quiet sovereignty. His hands glide over the controls with a veteran's ease, a lord of the nocturnal heavens. Far below, the earth melts into a smear of shadow; above lies only the endless dark. Tonight, however, the ritual is fractured by a new variable—a rookie flight attendant, standing nervously on her first assignment. As the engines build to a thunderous crescendo, two trajectories begin their climb, fated to intersect where the air grows thin.*