PARK, mina

[`` mina park .]

quiet | calm | observant | stubborn | brave

Nicknames: Minnie
Birthdate: 5th January 1987
Age: Twenty-six
Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Family: Mother (deceased), father (deceased), younger sibling

[`` mina park .]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true] In 5th January 1987, Manp’o city, Chagang province, North Korea (nearby China’s border), a baby girl was born to the well-known Park family. The father was absent from home when their first born Mina was brought into the world, but this wasn’t anything unusual. He worked for the North Korean army and was often away, usually at Pyongyang, the capital city of North Korea. He was actually in high position there too, but still it was hard for him to find a way to get home to see his first daughter. If you skipped work without a good enough reason (meaning terminally ill) you were despised and most likely would be getting rid of. This is why he had to wait for three weeks before he finally could see his daughter for the first time. Yes, it was hard, but at least he was paid enough well for them to get food and electricity. Not all that many were as lucky. Even during cold winter most people would freeze to death and be without food, most likely end up becoming cannibals on top of that. Yeah, they were extremely lucky even if he had to be away from home for months at a time. Years went by peacefully and another child was born in the family. Little Mina was actually jealous of the new born and actually showed no interest to the baby and as they grew older, she would often bully the younger one even, because she felt like she didn’t get enough attention from her parents anymore (or well, more likely from their mother, because their father was rarely at home). What she didn’t understand back then was that the younger one needed to be looked after a lot more, because diapers needed to be changed and such other things. But Mina couldn’t understand that. Everytime she would get back home from school she would see her mother holding the other one in her arms and the two would play around while she would have to go to her room and do her homework. To her it was extremely unfair. Later on she started to get used to it and would go play outside with her friends after doing her homework and wouldn’t come home until dinner or supper and after that it was usually a bedtime already. They didn’t have a television either, because their father had decided it was for the best. Pretty much only news was showed anyway, and their father thought neither of the children would really care what was happening between North and South, but Mina actually was quite smart and was curious about everything that was happening. She was always a bit bitter about not having a TV when their father was on such a high position after all, so they definitely could get one, but only later in her years she realized that in reality their father didn’t want the children to get messed up because of all the propaganda and brainwashing they showed on the television. One day their father brought some guests home whom kind of had invited themselves to his home, perhaps to check if there were enough Kim Il-Sung’s pictures on the walls or if his children and wife worshipped North Korea’s president enough. They were some kind of government men, of that Mina was sure of. They would all have to behave extremely well or they would all be in trouble and sentenced to death if they noticed anything fishy. What they did notice was that their mother was quite the beauty and they wanted her to go to Pyongyang with them and train to become a news anchor or even some kind of entertainer. They talked about all the possibilities by themselves, not asking their mother’s or their father’s opinion. Their mother said she couldn’t leave the children behind, but the men just said that the whole family could move into Pyongyang or that they should just leave the children behind to be taken care of by the neighbors or some relatives. Needless to say both of their parents were shocked, but the government men refused to take no for an answer and said they will expect her to arrive to Pyongyang in three days and that if she did bring the kids with her she would have to tell everyone that she didn’t have any kids nor a husband. Luckily his father didn’t have to go to work for three days also, because he would have to be the one to escort his wife to Pyongyang. Their parents came up with an escape plan, knowing it would be extremely dangerous and hard to get out of North Korea, but they had had enough of this kind of life and wanted to take the risk. The next night they left their beloved home behind. They thought they planned everything carefully, but they hadn’t guessed that the government had expected them to make this move. It was late December, almost New Year, and it was an extremely cold winter. Mina was only fifteen back then, but would be turning sixteen the next month. It was extremely dark, but at least the snow lighted the area somewhat. Too bad it would also leave foot prints behind. They couldn’t bring any flashlights with them, because that way they would for sure be spotted fast. After a two hour walk though it started to snow a lot, almost storming; this was in a way a good thing because it hid their foot prints, but it also made their journey a bit more difficult, especially for her younger sibling. They arrived over the border, enough far away from the bridge that connected North Korea and China (obviously they couldn’t just go and cross the bridge) and they figured the lake was frozen, so they could just cross it, but it seemed just far too easy for some reason. Their father though knew very well where all the soldiers were placed over the border which why he knew that they could get across it without a worry if they just walked straight forward and moved enough fast. With ease they were able to get across the lake and they were able to get to China. They knew they were far from safe though, especially because now they were surrounded nothing but forest. Their father knew that somewhere nearby there was a park and if they walked into the wrong direction they would run into people which wasn’t a good thing at all. They needed to stay hidden. Most likely the Chinese would just report them to the authorities in hopes they will get well paid for helping out with refugees. So they tried to stay away from the roads and get deeper into the woods. Soon though they heard yelling behind them and dogs barking as well which why they needed to start running. For their lives. Their mother tripped though and hurt her ankle which why their father gave them a pack of matches, a knife and his backpack and told the kids to run as fast as they could and to never look behind no matter what happens or what they hear. Mina took her younger sibling’s hand into hers and they ran together deeper and deeper into the woods, ignoring their mother’s screams and the gunshots they heard. After two hours of running and walking and running and walking they got too tired, and once they found a nice small cave where they both could fit they decided to rest there for a moment, although Mina knew it was dangerous. Not only because they were chased after, but because there were a lot of wild animals in the forest such as bears and wolves. They started to get cold though although they had enough clothes, but although Mina remembered the matches her father had given her she still decided it would be too dangerous to light a fire. They needed to somehow survive the night in the cave. Once the sun would rise they could light a fire for a moment and try to look for something to eat. They both had fallen asleep, but at some point Mina woke up as she heard cracks somewhere around them. For a moment she gathered courage before taking a peek outside the cave. It was still dark, but she guessed the time was around 5am to 8am. Around that time of the year it was still dark around that time of the day (or well, most of the day was dark anyway, there were only a few hours of light before it became dark again). She could see nothing in the darkness which why stepped out of the cave for a moment, not hearing anymore noises or seeing any lights either. No dogs barking. No one could be following them anymore, right? As she turned back to face the cave again she noticed her younger sibling standing there too, quietly staring into the darkness as if she/he saw something in there. Quietly Mina whispered to her sibling whether they saw someone out there or not, but the younger one was only able to point their finger into the darkness, looking shocked and unable to open their mouth. Mina stared into the darkness, but so nothing and although she was alarmed she still wondered if the younger one had just been seeing a dream or just scared of the shadows. As she was about to lead her younger sibling back into the cave they were both grabbed from their feet, so that they fell down face against the snow before someone or something dragged them fast further away from the cave. She must have had hit her head onto a rock, because she blacked out soon and couldn’t remember what happened after. It was daylight already when Mina started waking up, noticing her sister next to her as well. Both of them were back in the cave though, so for a moment she believed that it had all just been a dream, but once she noticed a big wound on her younger sibling’s leg as well as on her own arm she knew that something had happened. She gasped, felt terrified, but couldn’t make any sense of the situation. Why were they back in the cave? What had happened? Mina felt like all energy had been drained from her, but somehow she was able to light a small fire to warm them up and she found some chicken soup in the backpack. They both ate and drank some water, but suddenly they were both also had a high fever which made her think that their wounds must had gotten infected. In the backpack she found some disinfectant and bandages, and so she took care of both their wounds. There was also some fever medicine, but still it seemed like the fever wasn’t going anywhere. A couple of days went by and both of them barely ate anything, but just slept in the small cave, getting worse day by day. Mina was sure they would die in there. One day she suddenly woke up as she heard dogs barking. She startled bad, so did her younger sibling. They knew neither of them had the strength to run and it would be too late to do so anyway, so they stayed quietly in the cave, hoping they wouldn’t be found. Suddenly a dog stuck its face inside the cave and stared at them, but it had stopped barking and it wasn’t even snarling. Quietly and terrified they both stared deep into the dog’s eyes before it just winced and ran away. They heard footsteps nearby too, but no one came near to the cave. After an hour or so they were gone. Mina took a peek outside, curious about what had happened. For sure they had been soldiers looking for them, but why hadn’t the dog barked? How could they not have found them? Part of her had wished they would have been found, because they both were extremely sick and she was quite sure they wouldn’t last longer than a few days, especially because they were beginning to run out of food and water. The next day though they both suddenly started to feel better, and I mean a lot better. Their wounds had completely healed, like they were never there. They both could hear things clearly, see extremely well and all the rest of their senses had heightened up as well. Sure they both had heard stories about werewolves as kids, but neither of them refused to even think such things existed and neither mentioned anything. They just thought that because they had been so sick that they had just forgotten how well their senses were working. It was only then too that they finally started realizing that their parents were really gone and they wouldn’t be seeing them ever again. Mina didn’t say it out loud, but she truly wished that those gun shots they had heard back then had really killed both of their parents, so that they wouldn’t be alive anymore somewhere and having to suffer, because she knew that betrayers would be taken to the mines or elsewhere to work without food. There were extremely inhuman conditions. They had extremely good luck with them, because an older woman (in her fifties) found them while she was hiking and looking for different kind of berries, mushrooms and herbs. She wasn’t one after the money and felt pity for them, so she decided to take them to her house and start looking after them. No questions asked, though for sure she knew that the two siblings had run away from North Korea. Her name was Li Huifang. Huifang didn’t have any children and her husband had passed away twenty-five years ago and she hadn’t wanted to marry anyone again, feeling like her late husband had been the one big love of her life. On top of that she lived a bit further away from a small village, no neighbors or anything nearby, so most likely no one would notice that she had two guests living with her now. They didn’t have any trouble at first until it was full moon in just a couple of days that they had arrived. The next day after the full moon both of the siblings found themselves not in their beds, but outside in the forest, completely naked and neither remembered what had happened. For some reason Huifang knew exactly what was going on and was willing to explain it, but there was a small problem. Obviously there was a language barrier. Huifang had to travel a bit further away to buy a dictionary and some books in Korean, knowing that the authorities were following carefully anyone who bought anything Korean related, because they most likely had been informed about two run away children. Therefore she travelled to a bigger city where no one knew or recognized her, so she couldn’t be easily traced either. With the help of the dictionary and Huifang the two were able to learn Chinese a little bit, so that they could at least know all the basic words such as “yes”, “no”, “good morning”, “good night”, “bye”, “hello”, “sorry,” and “thank you”. Soon enough Huifang was able to explain them about werewolves too, and although at first the two didn’t believe her they finally had to after it all happened for the second time. Both Mina and her younger sibling helped a lot with all the chores around the house and with the small farm that the woman had. There were a couple of cows, some chickens, a few pigs as well as goats. The two siblings also finally started to realize how important the other one was and they became close, pretty much inseparable, although they still did argue from time to time. Mina also learned how to sew and she found herself quite enjoying designing and making clothes. She had always been good at drawing too, so whenever she didn’t have to do any chores she pretty much just kept to herself, drawing and sewing clothes for herself, her younger sibling and for Huifang. For two and half years they stayed with Huifang, now knowing enough Chinese and their manners, so that no one would figure out where they really were from. They had known that they couldn’t stay forever with Huifang and the woman also knew that it was time for them to get going and start their journey towards South Korea. Huifang helped them to get across Russia’s border from where they could get to Japan by a ship. It took a couple of weeks for them to first get to travel to Japan and pretend to be Chinese tourists. Once they got into Japan though they knew they didn’t have to worry about anymore, because for sure no one in Japan would send them back to North Korea. Three weeks after leaving China and Huifang behind they finally made it to South Korea, Mina now being almost twenty years old. They were able to get help from a family of four, but only for one year, so that the two siblings would get a good start in South Korea. That was all they needed too. Mina was able to get a job at a local clothing boutique while her younger sibling was now able to attend school properly too. The new family they moved in with was going to move in France after a year or two, so therefore all of them were talking in French a lot. This is how both Mina and Jung learned to at least somewhat speak French as well. A year after they had to find their own place and say goodbyes to the family that had taken care of them. Mina still worked at the small boutique while Jung went to school. Mina realized that it really was her duty to be a mother to Jung now and take care of her the best she could. This also meant that at times she had to be very strict and set some rules as well as put her own needs to the side. She earned just enough to pay the rent and the bills as well as feed them both, but they did live a bit harsh life, especially when they every full moon they would take the form of a wolf. Somehow little by little they learned to control their wolf self as well. They both had been normal muggle children in the past, so becoming a werewolf and finding out about their existence was a huge thing, but when they also found out that there were witches and wizards… that blew their mind. Neither had ever noticed that both of them had done some kind of magic in the past, and perhaps this was one of the reasons their parents had wanted to leave North Korea behind, because they had realized how special they were and were afraid that North Korean government would do something to their children. After finding out about magic and learning it a bit, thanks to their neighbor who was a wizard, they decided that Jung should enroll into a magical school instead. For some reason being in South Korea was hard for them, because it was so close to North and it just brought back bad memories. They needed to escape to somewhere else. Because they already knew the language somewhat well they chose to go to France. They found out about Beauxbatons academy and how there was also a clothing boutique without an owner. So Jung would go to Beauxbatons while Mina would be able to stay close to her and watch over her by working nearby. Perfect.

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