๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ด๋ฅธ์ด ๋์๋ค
Callan


20์ด์ด ๋ ๋ ธ์๋ ์๋ฒ์ง์ ์ํด ํ๋์ค์์ ์๊ตญ์ผ๋ก ์ํ ๋นํ๋ค. ๊ทธ ํ ๊ทธ๋ ์์ ์ ์๋ฒ์ง ์์ ์ํด ๊ฐ์ฅ์ ์๊ฐ๋์ด์ผํ๊ณ ์๊ฐ๋๋ ๋์ ๊ฐ๋ฌธ์ ์ด๋ฆ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์, ๊ฐ๊ธ์ ๋นํ ์ฑ ์๋ฒ์ง์ ์์์ ๋ฒ์ด๋๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋ฐ๋ฒ๋ฅ์ณค๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ 5๋ , ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ณ ๋ ๋ ๋ น์ค ๊ณต์์ด ๋์๋ค.
15๋
๊ฐ ์บ๋ฐ์ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค1๊ฐ ๋ฉ์์งโต
The first year, I kept my phone on loud.
์ฒซ 1๋ ๋์์ ํด๋ํฐ ๋ฒจ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํญ์ ํฌ๊ฒ ํค์๋๋ค.
That's the stupid truth of it.
๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ด ๋ฉ์ฒญํ ์ง์ค์ ์ ๋ถ๋ค.
Not some noble waiting by a window with rain on the glass and poetry leaking out his arse.
์ฐฝ๊ฐ์ ์์ ๋น๋ฐฉ์ธ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์๋ฉ์ด์์ ์๊ตฌ๋ผ๋ ์ฅ์ด์ง๋ด๋ ๊ณ ๊ฒฐํ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆผ ๋ฐ์๊ฐ ์๋์๋ค.
Just me, twenty, then twenty-one, sleeping with the mobile on the pillow hard enough to leave a rectangle in the skin of my cheek when I rolled onto it.
๊ทธ์ ์ค๋ฌด ์ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ค๋ฌผํ ์ด์ ๋ด๊ฐ, ์๋ค๊ฐ ๋ค์ฒ์ผ ๋ ๋บจ์ ์ง์ฌ๊ฐํ ์๊ตญ์ด ๋จ์ ์ ๋๋ก ํด๋ํฐ์ ๋ฒ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฝ ๋๋ฌ๋๊ณ ์ ๋ค์์ ๋ฟ์ด๋ค.
Every buzz in the night punched me upright.
๋ฐค์ค์ ์ง๋์ด ์ธ๋ฆด ๋๋ง๋ค ๋ชธ์ด ์ฉ์์ฒ ์ฒ๋ผ ํ์ด ์ฌ๋๋ค.
Club staff. Sean. Gran. A sponsor. Wrong number.
ํด๋ฝ ์คํํ. ์ . ํ ๋จธ๋. ์คํฐ์. ์๋ชป ๊ฑธ๋ ค ์จ ์ ํ.
A cunt from the club asking if I'd seen the physio notes.
ํผ์ง์ค ๋ฆฌํฌํธ ๋ดค๋๊ณ ๋ฌป๋ ํด๋ฝ์ ์ด๋ค ์น์๋ผ.
Never him.
๊ทธ๋ ๋จ ํ ๋ฒ๋ ์์๋ค.
I'd wake with the shape of his voice already there, as if the body got a half-second head start before the head understood it had been tricked again.
๋จธ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ ์์๋ค๋ ๊ฑธ ๊นจ๋ซ๊ธฐ๋ ์ ์ ๋ชธ์ด 0.5์ด ๋จผ์ ๋ฐ์์ด๋ผ๋ ํ๋ฏ, ๊ทธ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๊ท๊ฐ์ ๋งด๋๋ ์ํ๋ก ์ ์์ ๊นจ๊ณค ํ๋ค.
I told nobody I was waiting.
๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ๋ง์ ์๋ฌด์๊ฒ๋ ํ์ง ์์๋ค.
I'd have rather eaten gravel.
์ฐจ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์๊ฐ์ ์น์ด ๋จน๊ณ ๋ง์ง.
Outwardly I got on with it.
๊ฒ์ผ๋ก๋ ์๋ฌด๋ ์ง ์๊ฒ ์ผ์์ ๋ณด๋๋ค.
That's the thing people praise when they mean you've suffered in a way convenient to watch.
์ฌ๋๋ค์ด '์ ์ด๊ฒจ๋ด๊ณ ์๋ค'๋ฉฐ ์นญ์ฐฌํ ๋, ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์ฌ์ค ๋จ์ด ๋ณด๊ธฐ์ ํธ์ํ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ๊ณ ํต๋ฐ๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ๋ป์ด๋ค.
I trained. I scored.
ํ๋ จ์ ํ๊ณ , ๊ณจ์ ๋ฃ์๋ค.
I ran myself into the ground because running was useful and grief wasn't.
๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฑด ์ธ๋ชจ๊ฐ ์์์ง๋ง ์ฌํ์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ง ์์๊ธฐ์, ๋ชธ์ด ๋ถ์์ ธ๋ผ ๋ฐ์๋ค.
Liverpool took me further up through the age groups, then into rooms with better boots and worse men.
๋ฆฌ๋ฒํ์ ๋๋ฅผ ์ ์ค ํ์์ ์๋ก ๋์ด์ฌ๋ ธ๊ณ , ๋๋ ๋ ์ข์ ์ถ๊ตฌํ์ ๋ ์ง ๋์ ๋๋ค์ด ๋์ค๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฐฉ์ผ๋ก ์ฎ๊ฒจ๊ฐ๋ค.
Reporters started using words like instinctive and ruthless and natural finisher, as if any of it had arrived without a body first learning what it meant to be handled until it mistook possession for structure.
๊ธฐ์๋ค์ '๋ณธ๋ฅ์ '์ด๋ผ๊ฑฐ๋ย '๋ฌด์๋นํ๋ค',ย '์ฒ๋ถ์ ์ธ ํผ๋์ ' ๊ฐ์ ๋จ์ด๋ค์ ์จ๋๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค. ๋ง์น ๋ด ๋ชธ์ด ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์๊ฒ ๋ค๋ค์ง๋ ๋ฒ์ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ณ , ์์ ๋นํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ถ์ ์ฒด๊ณ๋ก ์ฐฉ๊ฐํ๊ฒ ๋ ๊ณผ์ ๋ฐ์๋ ์์๋ค๋ ๋ฏ์ด.
I was already mean before him.
๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋๊ธฐ ์ ์๋ ๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ชป๋ ๋์ด์๋ค.
He just gave it architecture.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ทธ์ ๊ทธ ๋ชป๋ ์ฑ์ ์ ์ ๊ตํ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถ์ฌํ์ ๋ฟ์ด๋ค.
At twenty-one I still drove the black coupe.
์ค๋ฌผํ ์ด์๋ ๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ทธ ๊ฒ์์ ์ฟ ํ๋ฅผ ๋ชฐ์๋ค.
That was another stupid truth.
๊ทธ๊ฒ๋ ๋ ํ๋์ ๋ฉ์ฒญํ ์ง์ค์ด์๋ค.
I should've sold it. Set fire to it. Put it through a wall.
์ง์ ํ์์น์ ์ด์ผ ํ๋ค. ๋ถ์ ์ง๋ฅด๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ฒฝ์ ๋ค์ด๋ฐ์ ๋ฒ๋ ธ์ด์ผ ํ๋ค.
Instead I drove it until the leather lost the expensive funeral smell and the last dried ghost of peony left the vents.
ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๋์ ๊ฐ์ฃฝ ์ํธ์์ ๋๋ ๊ณ ๊ธ์ค๋ฌ์ด ์ฅ๋ก์ ๋์๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง๊ณ , ์กํ๊ตฌ์์ ๋์ค๋ ์์ฝ์ ๋ง์ง๋ง ํ์ ๊น์ง ๋ค ๋น ์ ธ๋๊ฐ ๋๊น์ง ๊ทธ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋ชฐ์๋ค.
I told myself it was because the car was good.
์ฐจ๊ฐ ์ข์์ ํ๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ ์ค์ค๋ก๋ฅผ ์์๋ค.
Engine responsive, steering honest, low enough to feel like bad decisions made elegant.
์์ง์ ๊ธฐ๋ฏผํ๊ณ , ํธ๋ค๋ง์ ์ ์งํ๋ฉฐ, ์ฐจ์ฒด๊ฐ ๋ฎ์ ๋์ ๊ฒฐ์ ์กฐ์ฐจ ์ฐ์ํ๊ฒ ๋๊ปด์ง๊ฒ ๋ง๋๋ ์ฐจ์์ผ๋๊น.
That was part of it.
๊ทธ๊ฑด ์ผ๋ถ์ผ ๋ฟ์ด์๋ค.
The other part was dirtier.
๋๋จธ์ง ์ด์ ๋ ๋ ์ง์ ๋ถํ๋ค.
My hand fit the wheel and remembered the birthday before it remembered the years after.
์ด์ ๋๋ฅผ ์ก์ ๋ด ์์ ๊ทธ ํ์ ์ธ์๋ณด๋ค ๊ทธ์ ์ ์์ผ์ ๋จผ์ ๊ธฐ์ตํด ๋๋ค.
Sometimes I'd sit in it in the training-ground car park after everybody else had gone in and stare at my own reflection in the dark windscreen until a coach knocked on the glass and asked if I'd died in there.
๊ฐ๋์ ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ํด๊ทผํ ํ๋ จ์ฅ ์ฃผ์ฐจ์ฅ์ ์์, ์ฝ์น๊ฐ ์ ๋ฆฌ์ฐฝ์ ๋๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์์์ ์ฃฝ์๋๊ณ ๋ฌผ์ด๋ณผ ๋๊น์ง ์ด๋์ด ์ ์ ๋ฆฌ์ ๋น์น ๋ด ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ฉํ๋ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๊ณค ํ๋ค.
The first winter after the silence, i went to London twice on my day off and once without permission.
์นจ๋ฌต์ด ์์๋ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ๊ฒจ์ธ, ์ฌ๋ ๋ ์ ๋ ๋ฒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ ๋ฒ์ ํ๋ฝ๋ ์์ด ๋ฐ๋์ผ๋ก ํฅํ๋ค.
Didn't announce it. Didn't ask.
์๋ฆฌ์ง๋ ์์๊ณ , ๋ฌป์ง๋ ์์๋ค.
Just drove down once, then took a train another time because I thought maybe being anonymous among commuters would make the whole thing less pathetic.
๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋ชฐ๊ณ ๋ด๋ ค๊ฐ๊ณ , ๋ ํ ๋ฒ์ ํต๊ทผ์๋ค ์ฌ์ด์ ์์ฌ ์ต๋ช ์ผ๋ก ๋จ์ผ๋ฉด ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ์ง๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ ํ์ฌํด ๋ณด์ผ๊น ์ถ์ด ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค.
It did not.
์ ํ ๊ทธ๋ ์ง ์์๋ค.
I walked past the Gordon-Lennox places I knew and got nowhere useful.
๋ด๊ฐ ์๋ ๊ณ ๋ ๋ ๋ น์ค ๊ฐ๋ฌธ์ ์ง๋ค์ ์ง๋์ณค์ง๋ง, ์๋ฌด๋ฐ ์ํ๋ ์์๋ค.
One townhouse looked occupied but not by him.
์ด๋ ํ์ดํ์ฐ์ค์๋ ์ฌ๋์ด ์ฌ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๋ ์๋์๋ค.
Curtains changed. Car at the curb not theirs.
์ปคํผ์ด ๋ฐ๋์ด ์์๊ณ , ๊ธธ๊ฐ์ ์ธ์์ง ์ฐจ๋ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋์๋ค.
The family office gave me a man in a navy suit with soft hands and no pulse in the face.
๊ฐ๋ฌธ์ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค์ ๊ฐ๋ ๋ถ๋๋ฌ์ด ์์ ๊ฐ์ง, ์ผ๊ตด์ ์๊ธฐ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ ์ ํ ์๋ ๋ค์ด๋น ์ํธ ์ฐจ๋ฆผ์ ๋จ์๊ฐ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ง์๋ค.
He said Mr. Gordon-Lennox was unavailable.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ณ ๋ ๋ ๋ น์ค ์จ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ค.
I asked which one. He didn't answer.
์ด๋ ์ชฝ ๊ณ ๋ ๋ ๋ น์ค๋๊ณ ๋ฌผ์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋ ๋๋ตํ์ง ์์๋ค.
I told him to choke on the silverware and left.
์์๊ธฐ๋ ์ฒ๋จน๊ณ ๋ชฉ์ด๋ ๋งํ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ผ๊ณ ์์๋ถ์ฌ ์ฃผ๊ณ ๋ ๋์๋ฒ๋ ธ๋ค.
On the third trip I saw a gossip paper in a kiosk window with Noah's old school photograph next to words like DISGRACE and INQUIRY and MISSING HEIR, and I stood there in a hood and cap and felt something in me go flat and clean.
์ธ ๋ฒ์งธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ๋, ๊ฐํ๋ ์ ๋ฆฌ์ฐฝ ๋๋จธ๋กย '๊ฐ๋ฌธ์ ์์น',ย '์กฐ์ฌ',ย '์ค์ข ๋ ํ๊ณ์' ๊ฐ์ ๋จ์ด๋ค ์์ ๋ ธ์์ ์๋ ํ๊ต ์ฌ์ง์ด ์ค๋ฆฐ ๊ฐ์ญ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ณด์๋ค. ํ๋์ ๋ชจ์๋ฅผ ๋๋ฌ์ด ์ฑ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ ์ ์์๋, ๋ด ์์ ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋ฉ์ํ๊ฒ ๊น์ฌ๋๊ฐ๋ฉฐ ๊นจ๋ํด์ง๋ ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด ๋ค์๋ค.
Not broken. Filed down.
๋ถ์์ง ๊ฒ ์๋๋ผ, ๊ฐ๋ ค ๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
There was no useful blood in it.
๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ด์ ์ธ๋ชจ ์๋ ํผ ํ ๋ฐฉ์ธ ๋จ์์์ง ์์๋ค.
France was worse because France had no edges I could find.
ํ๋์ค๋ ๋ ์ต์ ์ด์๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ์ฐพ์๋ผ ์ ์๋ ๋จ์๊ฐ ์ ํ ์์์ผ๋๊น.
Just an old address from one of the care packages and a refusal there too, in another language but the same expression.
์์ ์ ๋ณด๋ด์จ ์ํฌ ์ค ํ๋์ ์ ํ ๋ก์ ์ฃผ์๋ฟ์ด์๊ณ , ๊ทธ๊ณณ์์๋ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋นํ๋ค. ์ธ์ด๋ง ๋ค๋ฅผ ๋ฟ ํ์ ์ ๋๊ฐ์๋ค.
Hands open, polite, nothing to give.
์์ ๋ด์ ์ผ๋ฉฐ ์์ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๊ฒ, ์ค ์ ์๋ ๊ฑด ์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ์๋ค๋ ํ๋.
I came back to Liverpool with hotel soap in my wash bag and a temper so bad I got sent off the next weekend for stamping on a full-back who'd only deserved a shoulder.
์ธ๋ฉด๋๊ตฌ ๊ฐ๋ฐฉ์ ํธํ ๋น๋ ํ๋๋ง ์ฑ๊ธด ์ฑ ๋ฆฌ๋ฒํ๋ก ๋์์๊ณ , ์ฑ์ง๋จธ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๊ทน๋๋ก ๋๋น ์ง ํ์ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ฃผ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์์ ์ด๊นจ์ธ์์ด๋ ์ข ํ๋ฉด ๋ ํ๋ฐฑ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ง๋ฐ์ ํด์ฅ๋นํ๋ค.
The ring stayed on my hand through all of it.
๊ทธ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ณผ์ ๋์ ๋ฐ์ง๋ ๋ด ์์ ๋ผ์์ ธ ์์๋ค.
Left hand. Same place I put it the first night, alone like an idiot in Noah's room.
์ผ์. ๋ ธ์์ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋ฐ๋ณด์ฒ๋ผ ํผ์ ๋จ๊ฒจ์ก๋ ๊ทธ ์ฒซ๋ ๋ฐค์ ๋ผ์ ๋ ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ทธ ์๋ฆฌ๋ค.
For the first two years I wore it because taking it off felt too much like saying something out loud.
์ฒ์ 2๋ ๋์์ ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ๋นผ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง์น ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์๋ฆฌ ๋ด์ด ๋งํ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ ๊ณ์ ๋ผ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
Not devotion. More like superstition.
ํ์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒ ์๋๋ผ, ๋ฏธ์ ์ ๊ฐ๊น์ ๋ค.
If I kept it on, the line stayed unbroken.
๋ผ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉด ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋์ด์ง์ง ์์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ค.
If I took it off, whatever held him to the earthโif he was still on itโmight decide I'd forfeited.
๋ง์ฝ ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ๋นผ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ด ์ธ์์ ๋ถ๋ค์ด ๋งค๊ณ ์๋ ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ๊ฐโ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์์ง ์ด์์๋ค๋ฉด ๋ง์ด๋คโ๋ด๊ฐ ํฌ๊ธฐํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ฃผํ ์ง๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋ค๋ ์๊ฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด์๋ค.
Thick, that. I know. Didn't stop me.
๋ฉ์ฒญํ ์๋ฆฌ๋ผ๋ ๊ฑฐ ์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋๋ ๋ฉ์ถ ์ ์์๋ค.
Press hated the ring once people clocked it.
์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋์น์ฑ๊ธฐ ์์ํ์ ์ธ๋ก ์ ๊ทธ ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ์ซ์ดํ๋ค.
Thought it was branding, a statement, some calculated bit of menace.
๋ฌด์จ ๋ธ๋๋ ํ๋ณด๋ ์ฑ๋ช ๋ฐํ, ํน์ ๊ณ์ฐ๋ ์ํ์ ์๋จ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํ ๋ชจ์์ด๋ค.
A striker with a dark stone on his left hand and no public girlfriend, snarling through interviews and collecting fines.
๊ณต๊ฐ๋ ์ฌ์์น๊ตฌ๋ ์๋ ๋์ด ์ผ์์ ๊ฒ์ ๋ณด์์ด ๋ฐํ ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ผ๊ณ , ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ ๋๋ง๋ค ์ผ๋ฅด๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๋ฒ๊ธ์ด๋ ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๋ค๋๋ ์คํธ๋ผ์ด์ปค๋ผ๋.
Fans made edits. Speculation came and went.
ํฌ๋ค์ ์์์ ํธ์งํด ์ฌ๋ ธ๊ณ , ์จ๊ฐ ์ถ์ธก์ด ๋๋ฌดํ๋ค.
Men in studios called me private as if privacy were a tasteful hobby and not the after-effect of being carved up by somebody too elegant to leave fingerprints the world could name.
์คํ๋์ค์ ๋จ์๋ค์ ๋ด๊ฐ '์ฌ์ํ์ ์ค์ํ๋ค'๊ณ ๋ ๋ค์ด๋๋ค. ๋ง์น ์ฌ์ํ ๋ณดํธ๊ฐ ๊ณ ์ํ ์ทจ๋ฏธ๋ผ๋ ๋๋ ์. ์ธ์์ด ์์๋ณผ ๋งํ ์ง๋ฌธ์กฐ์ฐจ ๋จ๊ธฐ์ง ์์ ๋งํผ ์ฐ์ํ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์๊ฒ ๋๋์ง๋นํ ๋ค์ ๋ํ๋๋ ํ์ ์ฆ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ฌ์ค์ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ ์ฑ ๋ง์ด๋ค.
I let them talk. Better that than explanation.
๊ทธ๋ฅ ๋ ๋ค๊ฒ ๋ด๋ฒ๋ ค ๋๋ค. ๊ตฌ๊ตฌ์ ์ ์ค๋ช ํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋์ผ๋๊น.
I did fuck other people.
๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋๋ค๊ณผ ์๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค.
Not right away. That came later, once the waiting got boring enough to need disguising.
๋น์ฅ์ ์๋์๋ค. ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆผ์ด ๋๋ฌด ์ง๋ฃจํด์ ธ์ ๋ญ๋ผ๋ ๊ฐ๋ฉด์ ์จ์ผ ํ์ ๋์ฏค์ด์๋ค.
First year, no.
์ฒซ 1๋ ์ ์๋์๋ค.
I'd try to jerk off and end up with his voice in my head, which was intolerable because it still worked.
ํผ์ ๋ธ์ด๋ผ๋ ์น๋ ค๊ณ ํ๋ฉด ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์์์ ๊ทธ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ ค์๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋๋ฅผ ํฅ๋ถ์ํจ๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ด ์ฐธ์ ์ ์์๋ค.
Look at me. Breathe. Good boy.
๋๋ฅผ ๋ด. ์จ ์ฌ์ด. ์ฐฉํ์ง.
That one was the filthiest.
๊ทธ ๋ง์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ง๋ ํ๋ค.
My body responded to praise the way a dog turns at a whistle after enough beatings and feedings from the same hand.
๋ด ๋ชธ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ฃผ์ธ์๊ฒ ์ค์ปท ๋งค์ง์ ๋นํ๊ณ ๋จน์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์๋จน์ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ํํ๋ ์๋ฆฌ์ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ฆฌ๋ฏ, ๊ทธ ์นญ์ฐฌ์ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ค.
I started doing it in the shower so I could pretend the shaking was the hot water.
๋ชธ์ ๋จ๋ฆผ์ ๋จ๊ฑฐ์ด ๋ฌผ ํ์ผ๋ก ๋๋ฆด ์ ์๋๋ก ์ค์์ค์์ ํ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
Head against the tile, fist working fast, angry, trying to get there before memory did.
ํ์ผ์ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋๊ณ , ๊ธฐ์ต์ด ๋ฎ์น๊ธฐ ์ ์ ๋๋ด๋ ค๊ณ ํ๊ฐ ๋ ์ฑ๋ก ์์ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์์ง์๋ค.
Sometimes I managed it.
๊ฐ๋์ ์ฑ๊ณตํ๋ค.
Sometimes I'd come with the thought of that June morning so bright in me I'd have to sit on the floor after and laugh at what a ruined cunt I was.
ํ์ง๋ง ๊ฐ๋์ ๊ทธ 6์์ ์์นจ์ ๋ํ ๊ธฐ์ต์ด ๋๋ฌด๋ ์ ๋ช ํ๊ฒ ๋ ์ค๋ฅด๋ ๋ฐ๋์, ์ฌ์ ํ๊ณ ๋์ ๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ์ฃผ์ ์์ ๋ด๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง๋ ๋ง๊ฐ์ง ์น์๋ผ์ธ์ง ๋น์์ด์ผ ํ๋ค.
June was always worst.
6์์ ์ธ์ ๋ ์ต์ ์ด์๋ค.
Not romance. Not anniversary. Body memory.
๋ก๋งจํฑํ ์ด์ ๋, ๊ธฐ๋ ์ผ์ด๋ผ์๋ ์๋๋ค. ๋ชธ์ ๊ธฐ์ต ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ค.
Heat coming in through the window, sheets sticking, one particular colour of dawn.
์ฐฝ๋ฌธ์ผ๋ก ๋ค์ด์ค๋ ์ด๊ธฐ, ๋ชธ์ ๋ฌ๋ผ๋ถ๋ ์ํธ, ํน์ ์ ์๋ฒฝ๋น.
Every year around the sixteenth I'd sleep lighter and wake with that old interior ache as if he'd just got out of bed to button his shirt over me.
๋งค๋ 16์ผ์ฏค์ด ๋๋ฉด ์ ๊ท๊ฐ ๋ฐ์์ก๊ณ , ๋ง์น ๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋ฐฉ๊ธ ์นจ๋์์ ์ผ์ด๋ ๋ด ์์์ ์ ์ธ ๋จ์ถ๋ฅผ ์ฑ์ฐ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ํด๋ฌต์ ํต์ฆ์ ๋๋ผ๋ฉฐ ์ ์์ ๊นผ๋ค.
On bad nights I went out.
์ํ๊ฐ ์ ์ข์ ๋ฐค์ด๋ฉด ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋๊ฐ๋ค.
Not looking for Noah. Nobody looked like him properly.
๋ ธ์๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์ผ๋ฌ ๊ฐ ๊ฑด ์๋์๋ค. ๊ทธ์ ์ ๋๋ก ๋ฎ์ ์ฌ๋์ ์๋ฌด๋ ์์์ผ๋๊น.
You can get the coat, the cheekbones, the careful voice, but not the exact wrongness of a man who asks gently while arranging your refusal for you.
์ฝํธ๋ ๊ด๋๋ผ, ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฌ์ด ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ ํ๋ด ๋ผ ์ ์์์ง ๋ชฐ๋ผ๋, ์๋์ ๊ฑฐ์ ๊น์ง ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์ค๊ณํด ๋๋ฉด์ ๋ค์ ํ๊ฒ ๋ฌป๋ ๊ทธ ํน์ ์ ๋คํ๋ฆฐ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๊น์ง ์ฌํํ ์ ์๋ค.
Looking for him in strangers would've been too direct.
๋ฏ์ ์ฌ๋์๊ฒ์ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋ ๊ฑด ๋๋ฌด ๋ ธ๊ณจ์ ์ธ ์ง์ด์๋ค.
I'm not built for direct.
๋ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๋ ธ๊ณจ์ ์ธ ์ฑ๊ฒฉ์ด ๋ชป ๋๋ค.
Women first, mostly.
์ฒ์์๋ ์ฃผ๋ก ์ฌ์๋ค์ด์๋ค.
That surprises people when they hear anything at all.
์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๊ทธ ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ค์ผ๋ฉด ๊น์ง ๋๋ผ๊ณค ํ๋ค.
They think one bad enough night with a man rewrites the whole body.
๋จ์๋ ์ง๋ ํ ๋ฐค์ ํ ๋ฒ ๋ณด๋ด๊ณ ๋๋ฉด ๋ชธ ์ ์ฒด๊ฐ ๊ฐ์กฐ๋๋ ์ค ์๋ ๋ณธ๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ ์ง ์๋ค.
I liked women before him and after him.
๊ทธ ์ ์๋, ๊ทธ ํ์๋ ๋ ์ฌ์๊ฐ ์ข์๋ค.
Easy isn't the word. Cleaner, maybe.
'ํธํ๋ค'๋ ๋ง๋ก๋ ๋ถ์กฑํ๋ค. ์๋ง '๊น๋ํ๋ค'๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง์ ๊ฑฐ๋ค.
With women I could be the bastard they expected.
์ฌ์๋ค ์์์๋ ๊ทธ๋ค์ด ๊ธฐ๋ํ๋ ๋์ ๋์ด ๋ ์ ์์๋ค.
Big footballer, rough mouth, hand at the throat if she liked that, a wall at her back, a leg shoved open with my knee, enough filth in my voice to let her say later he was intense and not he looked at me like he wanted to prove a point to a ghost.
๋ฉ์น ํฐ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์ ์, ๊ฑฐ์น ๋งํฌ, ์๋๊ฐ ์ํ๋ค๋ฉด ๋ชฉ์ ์์ผ์ฅ๋ ์, ๋ฒฝ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ์ด๋ถ์ด๊ณ ๋ฌด๋ฆ์ผ๋ก ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ํ๋ ์ง๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ. ๋์ค์ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ '๊ทธ ๋จ์๋ ์ ๋ง ๊ฐ๋ ฌํ์ด'๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ๊ฒ ํ ๋งํผ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ์ ์ํํจ์ ๋ด์๋ค. '๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋ น์๊ฒ ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ฆ๋ช ํ๋ ค๋ ๋ฏํ ๋์ผ๋ก ๋๋ฅผ ๋ดค์ด'๋ผ๋ ์๋ฆฌ๋ ๋์ค์ง ์๊ฒ ๋ง์ด๋ค.
It worked when I needed friction, noise, some cunt moaning under me loud enough to drown out old instructions.
๋ง์ฐฐ๊ณผ ์์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ์ง์ ์ฌํญ๋ค์ ์ง์๋ฒ๋ฆด ๋งํผ ๋ด ๋ฐ์์ ํฌ๊ฒ ์ ์ํ๋ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ๊ฐ ํ์ํ ๋๋ ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์์๋ค.
But it never stayed.
ํ์ง๋ง ๊ฒฐ์ฝ ์ค๋๊ฐ์ง ์์๋ค.
I didn't sleep over. Didn't ask names twice.
์๊ณ ๊ฐ์ง ์์๊ณ , ์ด๋ฆ์ ๋ ๋ฒ ๋ฌป์ง๋ ์์๋ค.
If a woman got soft-eyed after, I got dressed.
๊ด๊ณ ํ์ ์ฌ์์ ๋๋น์ด ๋ถ๋๋ฌ์์ง๋ฉด, ๋๋ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ท์ ์ ์๋ค.
Once, twenty-two maybe, there was a girl named Eva.
ํ๋ฒ์, ์๋ง ์ค๋ฌผ๋ ์ด ๋์์ ๊ฑฐ๋ค. ์๋ฐ๋ผ๋ ์ฌ์๊ฐ ์์๋ค.
Scouser, smart, worked in some gallery and laughed at me like I was worth mocking properly.
๋ฆฌ๋ฒํ ํ ๋ฐ์ด์ ์๋ฆฌํ๊ณ , ๊ฐค๋ฌ๋ฆฌ์์ ์ผํ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋๋ฅผ ์ ๋๋ก ์กฐ๋กฑํ ๊ฐ์น๊ฐ ์๋ ๋์ด๋ผ๋ ๋ฏ ๋น์์ด์ฃผ์๋ค.
I saw her more than once, which was the nearest thing I came to dating that year.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ฌ ๋ฒ ๋ง๋ฌ๋๋ฐ, ๊ทธํด์ ์ฐ์ ๋น์ทํ ๊ฑธ ํ ๊ฑด ๊ทธ๋๊ฐ ์ ์ผํ๋ค.
She had a mouth on her. Didn't spook easy.
์ ๋ด์ด ์ข์๊ณ , ์ฌ๋งํ ์ผ์๋ ๊ฒ๋จน์ง ์์๋ค.
Came to one match and called my finish greedy after, which was correct and therefore attractive.
๋ด ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฌ ์์๋ ๋ด ํผ๋์๊ฐ ํ์์ค๋ฌ์ ๋ค๊ณ ํํ๋๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ ํํ ์ง์ ์ด๋ผ ์คํ๋ ค ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ด์๋ค.
We slept together for three months and I almost believed I liked the ordinary shape of it.
์ ๋ฌ ๋์ ๊ฐ์ด ์ค๊ณ , ๋๋ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ํ๋ฒํ ๊ด๊ณ๊ฐ ์ข์์ก๋ค๊ณ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋ฏฟ์ ๋ปํ๋ค.
Her shampoo on my pillow. Her knee in my side at dawn. Messages about coffee.
๋ด ๋ฒ ๊ฐ์์ ๋๋ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ์ดํธ ๋์. ์๋ฒฝ๋ ๋ด ์๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฟ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋ฌด๋ฆ. ์ปคํผ ๋ง์์๋ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ค.
Then one morning she touched the ring while I was tying my boots and said, light as anything,
"You ever gonna take that off, or is he dead and still winning?"
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ด๋ ๋ ์์นจ, ๋ด๊ฐ ์ถ๊ตฌํ ๋์ ๋ฌถ๊ณ ์์ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์์ฃผ ๊ฐ๋ณ๊ฒ ๋ฌผ์๋ค.
"๊ทธ๊ฑฐ ์ธ์ ์ฏค ๋บ ๊ฑฐ์ผ? ์๋๋ฉด ๊ทธ ๋จ์๊ฐ ์ฃฝ์ด์๊น์ง ์ด๊ธฐ๊ณ ์๋ ์ค์ธ ๊ฑด๊ฐ?"
I said,
"Don't."
๋ด๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
"ํ์ง ๋ง."
She said,
"That wasn't cruel."
๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
"์์ธํ๊ฒ ๋งํ๋ ค๋ ๊ฑด ์๋์์ด."
I said,
"Didn't say it was."
๋ด๊ฐ ๋ตํ๋ค.
"๊ทธ๋ ๋ค๊ณ ํ ์ ์์ด."
That was the end of it, really.
๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ ๋ง ๋์ด์๋ค.
Not because she was wrong.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ ํ๋ ค์๊ฐ ์๋์๋ค.
Because she'd stepped exactly on the soft place and I had nothing to offer anybody once they knew where it was.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ ๋ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ฝํ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ ํํ ๋ฐ์๋ฒ๋ ธ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๊ณ , ๊ทธ๊ณณ์ด ์ด๋์ธ์ง ๋คํจ ์ด์ ๋ ๋๊ตฌ์๊ฒ๋ ์ค ์ ์๋ ๊ฒ ์์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ค.
She was a woman, and for about three minutes after she shut the door I wanted to ring her back and do something adult and sane.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ฌ์์๊ณ , ๋ฌธ์ ๋ซ๊ณ ๋๊ฐ ๋ค ์ฝ 3๋ถ ๋์์ ๊ทธ๋ ์๊ฒ ๋ค์ ์ ํํด์ ์ด๋ฅธ์ค๋ฝ๊ณ ์ ์ ์ ์ธ ์ฌ๋์ฒ๋ผ ํ๋ํ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค.
Instead I went to training and split a teammate's lip in a 1v1 over a bad pass.
ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๋์ ํ๋ จ์ฅ์ ๊ฐ์ ํจ์ค ๋ฏธ์ค๋ฅผ ๋น๋ฏธ๋ก 1๋1 ์ํฉ์์ ํ ๋๋ฃ์ ์ ์ ์ ํฐ๋จ๋ ค ๋์๋ค.
Men happened later, less often.
๋จ์์์ ์ผ์ ๋์ค์, ๋ ๋๋ฌผ๊ฒ ์ผ์ด๋ฌ๋ค.
Not because I suddenly admitted anything.
๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ ํด์๊ฐ ์๋์๋ค.
Because there are nights when the body asks for a particular force and you can lie all you want, it still knows the difference between being entered and not.
๋ชธ์ด ํน์ ํ ํ์ ๊ฐ๊ตฌํ๋ ๋ฐค์ด ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ค. ์๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๊ฑฐ์ง๋ง์ ํ๋ ค ํด๋, ๋ชธ์ ์ฝ์ ๋นํ๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ ์ง ์์ ๊ฒ์ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ์๊ณ ์์๋ค.
Mostly hotel bars in Europe, anonymous and expensive enough for discretion.
์ฃผ๋ก ์ ๋ฝ์ ํธํ ๋ฐ์๋ค. ์ต๋ช ์ด ๋ณด์ฅ๋๊ณ ์ฌ์ํ์ ์ง์ผ์ค ๋งํผ ๋น์ผ ๊ณณ๋ค.
A centre-back from another league once, retired too young, beautiful in that blond, broad way I'm meant to hate on principle.
ํ๋ฒ์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฆฌ๊ทธ์ ์ผํฐ๋ฐฑ์ด์๋๋ฐ, ๋๋ฌด ์ผ์ฐ ์ํดํ ๋์ด์๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ์์น์ ์ผ๋ก ์ซ์ดํด์ผ ๋ง๋ ํ, ๊ธ๋ฐ์ ์ด๊นจ๊ฐ ๋์ ๋ฏธ๋จ์ด์๋ค.
We went back to his room. He kissed well. Hands knew what they were doing.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ทธ์ ๋ฐฉ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ํค์ค๋ฅผ ์ํ๊ณ , ์๋๋ฆผ๋ ๋ฅ์ํ๋ค.
He tried to be kind, which was the first problem.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ค์ ํ๊ฒ ๊ตด๋ ค๊ณ ํ๋๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ๋ฌธ์ ์๋ค.
Then he tried to be rough because he'd mistaken silence for invitation and thought I wanted theatrical damage.
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋๋ ๋ด ์นจ๋ฌต์ ์ ํน์ผ๋ก ์คํดํ๋์ง, ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ฌด์จ ์ฐ๊ทน์ ์ธ ์์ฒ๋ผ๋ ์ํ๋ ์ค ์๊ณ ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ฒ ๊ตด๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
He pushed me face-first into the mattress and said,
"You like that?"
in this smug little voice and I nearly laughed in his face.
๊ทธ๋์ ๋ด ์ผ๊ตด์ ๋งคํธ๋ฆฌ์ค์ ์ฒ๋ฐ๊ณ ๋ ์๋ ์ฒดํ๋ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ก
"์ด๋ฐ ๊ฑฐ ์ข์ํด?"
๋ผ๊ณ ๋ฌผ์๊ณ , ๋๋ ๊ทธ์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ๋๊ณ ์์์ ํฐ๋จ๋ฆด ๋ปํ๋ค.
I did laugh, actually. Couldn't help it.
์ฌ์ค ์ง์ง๋ก ์์ด๋ฒ๋ ธ๋ค. ์ฐธ์ ์๊ฐ ์์๋ค.
Sent him furious.
๊ทธ๋์ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋๊น์ง ํ๊ฐ ๋ฌ๋ค.
I still let him fuck me because I'd gone there to be fucked and wasn't leaving empty out of etiquette.
๊ทธ๋๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ๋ฐํ๊ฒ ๋ด๋ฒ๋ ค ๋๋ค. ๋ฐํ๋ฌ ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์๊ณ , ์์ ์ฐจ๋ฆฐ๋ต์๊ณ ๋น์์ผ๋ก ๋์ค๊ณ ์ถ์ง๋ ์์์ผ๋๊น.
It felt good in the blunt physical way a hard run feels good when the weather's cold enough.
๋ ์จ๊ฐ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์ถ์ธ ๋ ๋นก์ธ๊ฒ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋๋ฉด ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด ์ข์์ง๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ, ๋ฌด๋ ์ก์ฒด์ ์ธ ์พ๊ฐ์ด ๋๊ปด์ก๋ค.
Afterwards he asked if I wanted breakfast. I told him I wanted him to stop talking. That was that.
๋๋๊ณ ๋์ ๊ทธ๋์ด ์์นจ ๋จน๊ฒ ๋๊ณ ๋ฌป๊ธฐ์, ์ ์ข ๋ฅ์ณ์คฌ์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ๋งํด์คฌ๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ฑธ๋ก ๋์ด์๋ค.
There were a few more. Never anyone who looked like Noah.
๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ผ์ด ๋ช ๋ฒ ๋ ์์๋ค. ๋ ธ์๋ฅผ ๋ฎ์ ์ฌ๋์ ๋จ ํ ๋ช ๋ ์์๋ค.
That would've been too pathetic to survive myself.
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ค๋ฉด ๋ด ์ค์ค๋ก๊ฐ ๋๋ฌด ํ์ฌํด์ ๊ฒฌ๋ ์ ์์์ ๊ฑฐ๋ค.
If anything I went for men who were obviously not himโbigger, rougher, less elegant, no old-money quiet in them.
์คํ๋ ค ๋ ธ์์๋ ์ ๋ฐ๋์ธ ๋๋ค๋ง ๊ณจ๋๋ค. ๋ ํฌ๊ณ , ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ณ , ๋ ์ฐ์ํ๊ณ , ์๋ฅ์ธต ํน์ ์ ์ฐจ๋ถํจ ๋ฐ์๋ ๋ ์ป๊ณ ์ฐพ์๋ณผ ์ ์๋ ๋๋ค.
Cunts who swore too much, or looked thick, or had hands calloused wrong.
์์ ์ ์ ๋ฌ๊ณ ์ด๊ฑฐ๋, ๋ฉ์ฒญํด ๋ณด์ด๊ฑฐ๋, ์์ ๊ตณ์์ด์ด ์๋ฑํ๊ฒ ๋ฐํ ์๋ผ๋ค.
I kept hoping difference would help.
์ฐจ์ด์ ์ด ๋์์ด ๋๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ ๋ฐ๋๋ค.
It didn't.
์์ฉ์์๋ค.
Everybody else was either too gentle or too performative.
๋ค๋ฅธ ๋๋ค์ ๋๋ฌด ๋ค์ ํ๊ฑฐ๋, ์๋๋ฉด ๋๋ฌด ์ฐ๊ทน์ ์ด์๋ค.
Too scared of hurting me, or too pleased with themselves when they did.
๋๋ฅผ ์ํ๊ฒ ํ ๊น ๋ด ๊ฒ์ ๋ด๊ฑฐ๋, ์๋๋ฉด ์ํ๊ฒ ํด๋๊ณ ๋ ์ค์ค๋ก ๋๊ฒฌํดํ๊ฑฐ๋.
Noah had never had either problem.
๋ ธ์๋ ๊ทธ ์ด๋ ์ชฝ๋ ์๋์๋ค.
That's the fucking issue. He ruined the measurement.
๊ทธ๊ฒ ์จ๋ฐ ๋ฌธ์ ์๋ค. ๊ทธ ์ธ๊ฐ์ด ๊ธฐ์ค์น๋ฅผ ๋ง์ณ๋์๋ค.
Once your body's learned one exact cruelty as its native language, everything else comes through dubbed.
๋ชธ์ด ๋จ ํ๋์ ์ ํํ ์์ธํจ์ ๋ชจ๊ตญ์ด๋ก ๋ฐฐ์๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋๋ฉด, ๊ทธ ์ธ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋น๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ์ด์ํ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฆด ๋ฟ์ด๋ค.
By twenty-three I took the ring off my hand and put it on a chain.
์ค๋ฌผ์ธ ์ด ๋ฌด๋ ต, ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ์์์ ๋นผ์ ์ฒด์ธ์ ๊ฑธ์๋ค.
That was practical.
์ค์ฉ์ ์ธ ์ด์ ์๋ค.
Captain had a word with me after I bloodied a knuckle on someone's shirt during a derby and nearly took my own finger with it because the band caught.
๋๋น ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ๋์ค ์๋ ํ ์ ์ธ ์ ๋ํด์ด ๊ธํ ํผ๊ฐ ๋ฌ๋๋ฐ, ๋ฐ์ง๊ฐ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฐ๋์ ๋ด ์๊ฐ๋ฝ๊น์ง ๋ ์๊ฐ ๋ปํ ๋ค๋ก ์ฃผ์ฅ์ด ํ๋ง๋ ํ๋ค.
Could've been a stupid injury.
๋ฉ์ฒญํ ๋ถ์์ ๋นํ ๋ปํ ๊ฑฐ๋ค.
I stood in the changing room after with tape on my hand, the ring heavy and ugly in my palm, and thought: fine.
๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋๋๊ณ ์์ ํ ์ดํ์ ํ ์ฑ ๋ผ์ปค๋ฃธ์ ์์, ์๋ฐ๋ฅ ์์ ๋์ธ ๋ฌด๊ฒ๊ณ ํ์ธกํ ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์๊ฐํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋, ๋๋ค.
Not because I was done.
๋ฏธ๋ จ์ด ์์ด์๊ฐ ์๋์๋ค.
Just because football came first, always.
๊ทธ์ ์ถ๊ตฌ๊ฐ ์ธ์ ๋ ์ต์ฐ์ ์ด์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ค.
That's the one altar I came to before Noah and never left.
์ถ๊ตฌ๋ ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ ธ์๋ฅผ ๋ง๋๊ธฐ ์ ๋ถํฐ ์ง์ผ์จ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋จ ํ ๋ฒ๋ ๋ ๋ ์ ์๋ ์ ์ผํ ์ ๋จ์ด์๋ค.
So I threaded the ring onto a black cord and wore it under his shirt.
๊ทธ๋์ ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ๊ฒ์ ๋์ ๊ฟฐ์ด ์ ์ธ ์์ ์ฐผ๋ค.
Closer, in some ways. Worse, maybe.
์ด๋ค ๋ฉด์์ ๋ ๊ฐ๊น์์ก๊ณ , ์ด์ฉ๋ฉด ๋ ๋๋น ์ก๋ค.
On the finger it had been visible, a threat or joke depending who was looking.
์๊ฐ๋ฝ์ ๋ผ๊ณ ์์ ๋๋ ๋จ๋ค์ ๋์ ๋์๊ณ , ๋ณด๋ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ์ํ์ด๋ ๋๋ด๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค.
On the chain it sat against my chest all through training, all through flights, under the Liverpool kit while crowds screamed my name like they knew anything.
ํ์ง๋ง ์ฒด์ธ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ ํ๋ จํ ๋๋ ๋นํ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ ๋๋, ๊ด์ค๋ค์ด ๋์ ๋ํด ๋ญ๋ผ๋ ์๋ ์ ๋ด ์ด๋ฆ์ ์ฐํธํ๋ ๋์ ์ ๊ณ ์๋ ๋ฆฌ๋ฒํ ์ ๋ํผ ์๋์์ ๋ด ๊ฐ์ด์ ๋ฑ ๋ถ์ด ์์๋ค.
It tapped my sternum when I ran. It warmed with sweat.
๋ฌ๋ฆด ๋๋ง๋ค ๊ฐ์ด๋ผ๋ฅผ ํญํญ ๊ฑด๋๋ ธ๊ณ , ๋์ ์ ์ด ๋ฐ๋ปํด์ก๋ค.
On bad nights I'd hold it in my fist so hard the stone marked my palm.
์ํ๊ฐ ์ ์ข์ ๋ฐค์ด๋ฉด ๋ณด์ ์๊ตญ์ด ๋จ์ ์ ๋๋ก ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋จน์ ๊ฝ ์ฅ์๋ค.
On good nights I forgot it until the shower.
์ํ๊ฐ ๊ด์ฐฎ์ ๋ฐค์๋ ์ค์ํ ๋๊น์ง ๊ทธ ์กด์ฌ๋ฅผ ์๊ณ ์ง๋๋ค.
By twenty-four I stopped checking the phone at night.
์ค๋ฌผ๋ค ์ด์ด ๋์ ๋ฐค์ ํด๋ํฐ์ ํ์ธํ๋ ์ง์ ๊ทธ๋ง๋์๋ค.
That's not the same as stopping waiting.
๊ทธ๊ฒ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆผ์ ๋ฉ์ท๋ค๋ ๋ป์ ์๋๋ค.
Important distinction.
์ค์ํ ์ฐจ์ด๋ค.
I just changed the terms.
๊ทธ์ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋ฐ๊ฟจ์ ๋ฟ์ด๋ค.
You can't live at full alert forever unless you want to go mad in ways that get you sectioned or sold to Chelsea.
๊ฐ์ ์ ์์ ๋นํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์ฒผ์๋ก ํ๋ ค ๊ฐ ์ ๋๋ก ๋ฏธ์ณ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ ๊ฒ ์๋๋ผ๋ฉด, ํ์์ ๋น์ ๋๊ธฐ ์ํ๋ก ์ด ์๋ ์๋ ๋ฒ์ด๋ค.
So the body does what bodies do.
๊ทธ๋์ ๋ชธ์ ๋ชธ์ด ๋ ํ๋ ๋๋ก ํ๋ค.
It adapts while pretending it hasn't.
๊ทธ๋ ์ง ์์ ์ฒํ๋ฉด์ ์ ์ํด ๋๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ.
I muted the phone. Got better curtains. Left it face down.
ํด๋ํฐ์ ๋ฌด์์ผ๋ก ๋๋ ธ๋ค. ๋ ์ข์ ์ปคํผ์ ๋ฌ์๋ค. ํด๋ํฐ์ ๋ค์ง์ด ๋์๋ค.
Trained harder. Scored more.
ํ๋ จ์ ๋ ๋นก์ธ๊ฒ, ๊ณจ์ ๋ ๋ง์ด ๋ฃ์๋ค.
Collected a Ballon d'Or and looked at the thing in a suit with flashbulbs going off and thought, this is impressive, and the next thought was, he'd hate the speech if I thanked too many people.
๋ฐ๋กฑ๋๋ฅด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์๊ณ , ํ๋์ ์ธ๋ก ์์์ ์ํธ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณ ํธ๋กํผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ '์ด๊ฑฐ ๋๋จํ๋ค'๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฐ๋ก ๋ค์ ๋ ์๊ฐ์, ๋ด๊ฐ ๋๋ฌด ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ฌ ์ธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ ํ๋ฉด ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ด ์๊ฐ์ ์ซ์ดํ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ด์๋ค.
There he was again.
๋ ๊ทธ์๋ค.
Not even present and still editing the room.
๊ทธ ์๋ฆฌ์ ์์ง๋ ์์ผ๋ฉด์ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋ด ์ธ์์ ํธ์งํ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
Gran got older. That mattered more than all of it.
ํ ๋จธ๋๊ฐ ๋์ด๋ฅผ ๋์ จ๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฌด์๋ณด๋ค ์ค์ํ๋ค.
That's another truth people don't like because it interrupts the romance of ruin.
์ด๊ฑด ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ซ์ดํ ๋งํ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ง์ค์ด๋ค. ํ๋ฉธ์ ๋ก๋งจ์ค๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉํดํ๋๊น.
I rang her. Visited when I could.
ํ ๋จธ๋๊ป ์ ํ๋ฅผ ๋๋ ธ๊ณ , ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ ๋๋ง๋ค ์ฐพ์๋ต์๋ค.
Sat by the nursing-home window while she bullied me into eating shortbread and told me the papers used bad photos.
์์์ ์ฐฝ๊ฐ์ ์์, ์ ๋ฌธ์ ์ค๋ฆฐ ์ฌ์ง๋ค์ด ๋ณ๋ก๋ผ๋ฉฐ ์ต์ง๋ก ์ผํธ๋ธ๋ ๋๋ฅผ ๋จน์ด๋ ํ ๋จธ๋์ ์์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ค์๋ค.
Her hands shrank. Her eyes didn't.
ํ ๋จธ๋์ ์์ ์์์ก์ง๋ง, ๋๋น์ ์์ ๊ทธ๋๋ก์๋ค.
Once she asked me straight out if I was lonely.
ํ๋ฒ์ ํ ๋จธ๋๊ฐ ๋จ๋์ง์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ธ๋กญ๋๊ณ ๋ฌผ์ผ์ จ๋ค.
I said no because I'm not a complete idiot.
์์ ๋ฐ๋ณด๋ ์๋์๊ธฐ์ ์๋๋ผ๊ณ ๋๋ตํ๋ค.
She looked at my chest for half a second too long, where the chain sat under the T-shirt, and said,
"Mm."
ํ ๋จธ๋๋ ํฐ์ ์ธ ์๋ ์ฒด์ธ์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ ๋ด ๊ฐ์ดํ์ ์์ฃผ ์ ๊น, ํ์ง๋ง ํ์๋ณด๋ค ๊ธธ๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์๋๋ย "์" ํ๊ณ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ด์ จ๋ค.
The sound meant she knew enough and wouldn't save me from it.
๊ทธ ์๋ฆฌ๋ ํ ๋จธ๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ค ์๊ณ ๊ณ์๋ฉฐ, ๋๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์ ๊ตฌํด๋ด์ง๋ ์๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ๋ป์ด์๋ค.
That's real love, sometimes.
๊ฐ๋์ ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ง์ง ์ฌ๋์ด๋ค.
Not intervention. Recognition without theatre.
๊ฐ์ญํ๋ ๊ฒ ์๋๋ผ, ์๋ฌด๋ฐ ์ฐ๊ทน ์์ด ๊ทธ์ ์์๋ด ์ฃผ๋ ๊ฒ.
As for Noah after five years.
5๋ ์ด ์ง๋ ์ง๊ธ, ๋ ธ์์ ๋ํด ๋งํ์๋ฉด.
What d'you want me to say.
๋ฌด์จ ๋ง์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ถ์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ.
That I think of him as dead? Sometimes.
๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ฃฝ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๋๊ณ ? ๊ฐ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค.
Easier shape. Dead men at least have the decency to stay put.
๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ง์ ํธํ๋๊น. ์ฃฝ์ ๋๋ค์ ์ ์ด๋ ์ ์๋ฆฌ์ ๊ฐ๋งํ ์์ด ์ฃผ๋ ์์๋ผ๋ ์ฐจ๋ฆฌ๋๊น.
That I hate him? Obviously.
๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ฆ์คํ๋๊ณ ? ๋น์ฐํ์ง.
I hated him while he was in my bed, while he was feeding me soup with his fingers, while he was writing wait for me in that beautiful hand.
๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋ด ์นจ๋์ ์์ ๋๋, ์๊ฐ๋ฝ์ผ๋ก ๋ด๊ฒ ์ํ๋ฅผ ๋จน์ฌ์ค ๋๋, ๊ทธ ์๋ฆ๋ค์ด ์์ผ๋ก '๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค'๋ผ๊ณ ์ผ์ ๋๋ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ฆ์คํ๋ค.
Hate is cheap. Never struggled with that one.
์ฆ์ค ๋ฐ์๋ ๊ฐ์ธ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ณ ์ํด ๋ณธ ์ ์ ์๋ค.
The more interesting problem is this: five years of silence should've thinned him.
๋ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ก์ด ๋ฌธ์ ๋ ์ด๊ฒ์ด๋ค. 5๋ ๋์์ ์นจ๋ฌต์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ทธ์ ์กด์ฌ๊ฐ๋ ์ ์ด์ก์ด์ผ ํ๋ค.
It hasn't.
๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ ๊ทธ๋ ์ง ์์๋ค.
It's changed the texture, that's all.
์ง๊ฐ์ด ๋ฐ๋์์ ๋ฟ์ด๋ค.
Less like a wound now, more like old shrapnel.
์ด์ ๋ ์์ฒ๋ผ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋ค ์ค๋๋ ํํธ ๊ฐ๋ค.
Doesn't bleed every day. Still there when weather changes.
๋งค์ผ ํผ๊ฐ ๋์ง๋ ์์ง๋ง, ๋ ์จ๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋๋ฉด ์ฌ์ง์์ด ์ค์ ์ค๋ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ฒ.
Do I remember his words? Every one.
๊ทธ์ ๋ง์ ๊ธฐ์ตํ๋๊ณ ? ๋จ ํ ๋ง๋๋ ๋น ์ง์์ด.
Wait for me.
๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค.
Do not let anyone make you doubt what you are to me.
๋๊ตฌ๋ ๋ค๊ฐ ๋์๊ฒ ์ด๋ค ์กด์ฌ์ธ์ง ์์ฌํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์ง ๋ง.
Wear the ring.
๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ผ๊ณ ์์ด.
I remember them because they were built to survive memory.
๊ทธ ๋ง๋ค์ด ๊ธฐ์ต ์์์ ์ด์๋จ๋๋ก ์ค๊ณ๋์๊ธฐ์ ๊ธฐ์ตํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
Simple commands, short enough to travel badly and still land.
๋จ์ํ ๋ช ๋ น๋ค. ํ๋ํ ์ฌ์ ์ ๊ฑฐ์ณ๋ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ชฉ์ ์ง์ ๋๋ฌํ ๋งํผ ์งง์ ๋ฌธ์ฅ๋ค.
He knew what he was doing. He always did.
๊ทธ๋ ์์ ์ด ๋ฌด์จ ์ง์ ํ๋์ง ์๊ณ ์์๋ค. ์ธ์ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฏ์ด.
Five years later I can still hear the exact weight he put on wait.
5๋ ์ด ์ง๋ ์ง๊ธ๋ ๊ทธ๊ฐ '๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค'๋ผ๋ ๋ง์ ์ค์๋ ์ ํํ ๋ฌด๊ฒ๊ฐ์ ๋๋ ์ ์๋ค.
Not romantic. Administrative.
๋ญ๋ง์ ์ธ ๊ฒ ์๋๋ผ, ํ์ ์ ์ธ ๋ฌด๊ฒ์๋ค.
Like a law being entered in the proper ledger.
์ ์ ํ ์ฅ๋ถ์ ๊ธฐ์ ๋๋ ๋ฒ๋ น ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒ.
Do I wait?
๋ด๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋๊ณ ?
Here's the filth: not actively. Not nobly.
์ง์ ๋ถํ ์ง์ค์ ์ด๋ ๋ค. ์ ๊ทน์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฑด ์๋๋ค. ๊ณ ๊ฒฐํ๊ฒ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ๋ ์๋๊ณ .
I'm not sitting in that manor ironing hope.
์ ํ์ ์์ ํฌ๋ง์ด๋ ๋ค๋ฆผ์งํ๊ณ ์์ง๋ ์๋ค๋ ์๋ฆฌ๋ค.
I've lived. Fucked. Scored. Won things.
๋ ๋ด ์ถ์ ์ด์๋ค. ์น์ค๋ ํ๊ณ , ๊ณจ๋ ๋ฃ์๊ณ , ์ฐ์น๋ ํ๋ค.
Been booked, fined, adored, called a cunt by half the country and God-Cal by the other half.
๊ฒฝ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ณ , ๋ฒ๊ธ์ ๋ฌผ๊ณ , ์ฌ๋์ ๋ฐ๊ณ , ๋๋ผ ์ ๋ฐ์๊ฒ๋ ์น์๋ผ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋๋จธ์ง ์ ๋ฐ์๊ฒ๋ '๊ฐ ์นผ(God-Cal)'์ด๋ผ ๋ถ๋ ธ๋ค.
I've put women against walls and let men take me from behind and left every hotel room before the coffee came.
์ฌ์๋ค์ ๋ฒฝ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ์ด๋ถ์๊ณ , ๋จ์๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฅผ ๋ด์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ปคํผ๊ฐ ๋์ค๊ธฐ๋ ์ ์ ๋ชจ๋ ํธํ ๋ฐฉ์ ๋น ์ ธ๋์๋ค.
I've laughed. I've gone to Gran's and complained about Everton traffic.
์๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค. ํ ๋จธ๋ ๋์ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฒํด ์ชฝ ๊ตํต ์ฒด์ฆ์ ๋ํด ๋ถํ๋ ๋์ด๋์๋ค.
I've signed shirts for kids and told pundits to fuck off with a smile fit for broadcast.
์์ด๋ค์๊ฒ ์ ์ธ ์ ์ฌ์ธ์ ํด์คฌ๊ณ , ๋ฐฉ์ก์ฉ ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ค์๊ฒ ์ฟ์ด๋ ์ฒ๋จน์ผ๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํด์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค.
I have not become a monk of his absence.
๊ทธ์ ๋ถ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์งํค๋ ์๋์ ๋ฐ์๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฑด ์๋๋ ๋ง์ด๋ค.
And still I don't build anything that would make his return impossible.
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด์๋ ๋๋ ๊ทธ์ ๊ทํ์ ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค ๊ทธ ์ด๋ค ๊ฒ๋ ์์ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ง ์๋๋ค.
That's waiting. There's your answer. Rotten little thing.
๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆผ์ด๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ ๋ค๊ฐ ์ํ๋ ๋ต์ด๋ค. ์ฉ์ด๋น ์ง ์ง๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์ง.
I never moved out of the Liverpool house for good.
๋ฆฌ๋ฒํ ์ง์์ ์์ ํ ์ง์ ๋บ ์ ์ ์๋ค.
Bought the penthouse, yeah. Stay there plenty.
ํํธํ์ฐ์ค๋ฅผ ์๊ณ , ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์ ์์ฃผ ์ง๋ธ๋ค.
But there's always a room for me in the manor and always some part of me measuring other homes against the first place he caged me kindly enough that I mistook it for rescue.
ํ์ง๋ง ์ ํ์๋ ์ธ์ ๋ ๋๋ฅผ ์ํ ๋ฐฉ์ด ์๊ณ , ๋ด ์์ ์ด๋ค ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ง๋ค์ ๊ทธ๊ณณ๊ณผ ๋น๊ตํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์ฐฉ๊ฐํ ๋งํผ ๋ค์ ํ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋์๋ ๊ทธ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ฅ์์.
I never married.
๊ฒฐํผ๋ ํ์ง ์์๋ค.
Never let anything with Eva or anyone after get serious enough to introduce to Gran as if this one might stay.
์๋ฐ๋ ๊ทธ ์ดํ์ ๋๊ตฌ์๋ ํ ๋จธ๋๊ป '์ด ์ฌ๋๊ณผ ๊ณ์ ํจ๊ปํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค'๋ฉฐ ์๊ฐํด ๋๋ฆด ๋งํผ ์ง์งํ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋งบ์ง ์์๋ค.
I never stopped wearing the ring.
๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ๋นผ๋์ ์ ๋ ์๋ค.
I never told anybody the truth of June sixteenth to eighteenth because if I say it whole, it becomes more real than the body already knows it to be.
6์ 16์ผ๋ถํฐ 18์ผ๊น์ง์ ์ง์ค์ ๋๊ตฌ์๊ฒ๋ ๋งํ์ง ์์๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ์ ๋ถ ์ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋ด๋ฑ๋ ์๊ฐ, ๋ชธ์ด ์ด๋ฏธ ์๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ํจ์ฌ ๋ ์์ํ ํ์ค์ด ๋์ด๋ฒ๋ฆด ํ ๋๊น.
On nights the wanting gets bad, I still mostly deal with it alone.
์๊ตฌ๊ฐ ์ฌํด์ง๋ ๋ฐค์ด๋ฉด, ์ฌ์ ํ ๋๋ถ๋ถ ํผ์ ํด๊ฒฐํ๋ค.
That's another humiliation.
๊ทธ๊ฒ๋ ๋ ํ๋์ ๊ตด์์ด๋ค.
Twenty-five-year-old man, built like a weapon, could walk out and have somebody's number inside an hour if I wanted.
๋ณ๊ธฐ์ฒ๋ผ ๋จ๋ จ๋ ์ค๋ฌผ๋ค์ฏ ์ด ๋จน์ ๋จ์๊ฐ, ๋ง์๋ง ๋จน์ผ๋ฉด ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋๊ฐ ํ ์๊ฐ ์์ ๋๊ตฌ ๋ฒํธ๋ ๋ฐ๋ผ ์ ์๋๋ฐ๋ ๋ง์ด๋ค.
Sometimes I do.
๊ฐ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ํ๋ค.
Most times I stand in the shower after a match, one hand against the tile, chain in my teeth to keep it from hitting my chest, and jerk off with the old room in my head so vivid I can smell the changed linen and the lukewarm towel.
ํ์ง๋ง ๋๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋๋ ๋ค ์ค์์ค์ ์์, ํ ์์ผ๋ก๋ ํ์ผ์ ์ง๊ณ ์ฒด์ธ์ด ๊ฐ์ด์ ๋ถ๋ชํ์ง ์๊ฒ ์ ์ ๋ฌธ ์ฑ๋ก ๋ธ์ ์น๋ค. ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์์ ๊ทธ ์๋ ์ ๋ฐฉ์ ๋๋ฌด๋ ์์ํ๊ฒ ๋ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ. ๊ฐ์์ ํ ๋ฆฌ๋จ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ์ง๊ทผํ ์๊ฑด ๋์๊ฐ ๋๊ปด์ง ์ ๋๋ก.
Sometimes I picture his hand at the back of my neck.
๊ฐ๋์ ๋ด ๋ท๋ชฉ์ ๊ฐ์ธ ์ฅ๋ ๊ทธ์ ์์ ์์ํ๋ค.
Sometimes I try not to and fail.
๊ทธ๋ฌ์ง ์์ผ๋ ค๊ณ ์ ์ฐ๋ค๊ฐ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์คํจํ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค.
When I come it still hits with that same ugly mixtureโrelief, self-disgust, a flash of grief too physical to call grief.
์ฌ์ ํ ๋๋ฉด ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ทธ ์ง๋ ํ ๊ฐ์ ๋ค์ด ๋ค์์ฌ ๋ชฐ๋ ค์จ๋ค. ํด๋ฐฉ๊ฐ, ์๊ธฐํ์ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฌํ์ด๋ผ ๋ถ๋ฅด๊ธฐ์ ๋๋ฌด๋ ์ก์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ฐฐ๋์ ๋นํ.
Then I rinse my cock, spit the chain back against my skin, and go do recovery ice like a sane man.
๊ทธ๋ฌ๊ณ ๋ ๋ด ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ ์ป์ด๋ด๊ณ , ์ ์ ๋ฌผ๊ณ ์๋ ์ฒด์ธ์ ๋ค์ ๊ฐ์ดํ์ผ๋ก ๋ฑ์ด๋ธ ๋ค, ์ ์ ์ ์ธ ๋์ฒ๋ผ ์์ด์ฑ ์น๋ฃ๋ฅผ ํ๋ฌ ๊ฐ๋ค.
The house staff changed over time, of course.
๋ฌผ๋ก ์ ํ์ ๊ณ ์ฉ์ธ๋ค๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ํ๋ฅด๋ฉฐ ๋ฐ๋์๋ค.
People retire. People die.
์ํดํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ ์๊ณ , ์ฃฝ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ ์๋ค.
Hedwig went back to France after a year and a half.
ํค๋์ ์ 1๋ ๋ฐ ๋ง์ ํ๋์ค๋ก ๋์๊ฐ๋ค.
Halewick finally packed it in with his knees ruined and left with more dignity than most MPs.
ํ ๋ ์ ์ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ฌด๋ฆ์ด ๋ง๊ฐ์ ธ ์ผ์ ๊ทธ๋ง๋๋๋ฐ, ์ฌ๋งํ ๊ตญํ์์๋ณด๋ค ๋ ํ์ ์๊ฒ ๋ ๋ฌ๋ค.
Mrs. Hayley stayed longest.
ํค์ผ๋ฆฌ ๋ถ์ธ์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค๋ ๋จ์๋ค.
She never asked me once whether I thought he was coming back.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋์์ฌ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋๊ณ ๋ด๊ฒ ๋จ ํ ๋ฒ๋ ๋ฌป์ง ์์๋ค.
That restraint was either kindness or classism elevated to priesthood.
๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ ์ ๋ ฅ์ ์น์ ํจ์ด์๊ฑฐ๋, ์๋๋ฉด ์ฑ์ง์์ ๋ฐ์ด์ ์ค๋ฅธ ๊ณ๊ธ ์์์ด์์ ๊ฑฐ๋ค.
Before she moved to a cottage in Formby to be nearer her sister, she left one line over tea in the back kitchen:
"Some people can make an entire life out of not admitting they are still keeping a place set."
๋์๊ณผ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ์ง๋ด๊ธฐ ์ํด ํผ๋น์ ์๊ณจ์ง์ผ๋ก ๋ ๋๊ธฐ ์ , ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ท๋ถ์์์ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋ง์๋ฉฐ ํ๋ง๋๋ฅผ ๋จ๊ฒผ๋ค.
"์ด๋ค ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋น์๋๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ ์ธ์ ํ์ง ์๋ ๊ฒ๋ง์ผ๋ก๋ ํ์์ ๋ณด๋ผ ์ ์๋ต๋๋ค."
Then she put another biscuit on my plate and never mentioned it again.
๊ทธ๋ฌ๊ณ ๋ ๋ด ์ ์์ ๋น์คํท ํ๋๋ฅผ ๋ ์น์ด์ฃผ๊ณ ๋ ๋ค์๋ ๊ทธ ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊บผ๋ด์ง ์์๋ค.
So. Five years.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ, 5๋ ์ด๋ค.
Morning: run before dawn because sleep's gone light again.
์์นจ: ์ ๊ท๊ฐ ๋ค์ ๋ฐ์์ง ํ์ ๋์ด ํธ๊ธฐ ์ ๋ถํฐ ๋ฌ๋ฆฐ๋ค. ๋ฐ๊ฑธ์์ ๋ ๋๋ง๋ค ๋ฐ์ง๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ด๋ผ๋ฅผ ํ ๋ฒ์ฉ ๋๋ฆฐ๋ค.
The ring knocks once against my sternum with every stride.
๋ฐ๊ฑธ์์ ๋ ๋๋ง๋ค ๋ฐ์ง๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ด๋ผ๋ฅผ ํ ๋ฒ์ฉ ๋๋ฆฐ๋ค.
Mersey air in the lungs, cold enough to make the chest feel newly minted.
ํํ๋ก ์ค๋ฉฐ๋๋ ๋จธ์ง๊ฐ์ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๋ ๊ฐ์ด ์์ ๊ฐ ์ฃผ์กฐ๋ ๋์ ์ฒ๋ผ ์๋ํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ ๋ค.
Phone checked once. No message.
ํด๋ํฐ์ ํ ๋ฒ ํ์ธํ๋ค. ๋ฉ์์ง๋ ์๋ค.
Training: snap at a kid for admiring the wrong thing in my finish.
ํ๋ จ: ๋ด ํผ๋์์์ ์๋ฑํ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๊ฐํํ๋ ์ ์ก์ด ๋ ์์๊ฒ ์์๋ถ์ธ๋ค.
Not the strike, the celebration.
์์ด ์๋๋ผ ์ธ๋ฆฌ๋จธ๋์ ๊ฐํํ๋ค๋.
Tell him if he copies my mouth before my first touch I'll bury him.
ํผ์คํธ ํฐ์น๋ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ธฐ ์ ์ ๋ด ๋งํฌ๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ๋ผ ํ๋ ค ๋ค๋ฉด ์์ฃผ ๋ฌป์ด๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ๋งํด์ค๋ค.
Score three in the finishing drill anyway.
์ด์จ๋ ํผ๋์ ๋๋ฆด์์ ์ธ ๊ณจ์ ๋ฃ๋๋ค.
Javier calls me a selfish cunt. He's right, so I tell him to die slowly.
ํ๋น์๋ฅด๊ฐ ๋๋ณด๊ณ ์ด๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์๋ผ๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ค. ๋ง๋ ๋ง์ด๋ผ์ ์ฒ์ฒํ ๊ณ ํต์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ค์ง๋ผ๊ณ ๋๋ตํด ์ค๋ค.
Afternoon: award-season interview.
์คํ: ์์์ ์์ฆ ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ.
Polished shoes, dead eyes, some woman asking whether personal milestones change my view of legacy.
์ ๋ฆ์ธ ๊ตฌ๋, ์ฃฝ์ ๋. ์ด๋ค ์ฌ์๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ธ ์ ์ ๋ค์ด ๋ด ์ ์ฐ(legacy)์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ ์ ๋ฐ๊พธ์ด ๋์๋๋๊ณ ๋ฌป๋๋ค.
I say legacy's for people retiring or dying, and she laughs like I've made a joke.
์ ์ฐ์ ์ํดํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์ฃฝ์ด๊ฐ๋ ๋๋ค์ ์ํ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ ๋๋ตํ์, ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ด๊ฐ ๋๋ด์ด๋ผ๋ ํ ๋ฏ ์๋๋ค.
In the loo afterward I press my thumb against the stone through my shirt until it hurts.
๋์ค์ ํ์ฅ์ค์ ๊ฐ์, ์ ์ธ ์๋ก ๋ฐ์ง์ ๋ณด์ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ํ ๋๊น์ง ์์ง์๊ฐ๋ฝ์ผ๋ก ๊พน ๋๋ฅธ๋ค.
Evening: drive to Gran. She's smaller again.
์ ๋ : ํ ๋จธ๋ ๋์ผ๋ก ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋ชฌ๋ค. ํ ๋จธ๋๋ ๋ ์์์ง์ จ๋ค.
We watch a match from the seventies and she says the shorts were disgusting back then.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ 70๋ ๋ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ด ๋ณด๊ณ , ํ ๋จธ๋๋ ๊ทธ๋ ์ถ๊ตฌ ๋ฐ์ง๊ฐ ์ ๋ง ๊ผด๋ถ๊ฒฌ์ด์๋ค๊ณ ๋ง์ํ์ ๋ค.
I kiss her forehead on the way out and she pats my cheek like I'm still breakable if handled right.
๋์ค๋ ๊ธธ์ ํ ๋จธ๋์ ์ด๋ง์ ์ ์ ๋ง์ถ์, ํ ๋จธ๋๋ ๋ด๊ฐ ์ฌ์ ํ ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฃจ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด ๋ถ์์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ์กด์ฌ๋ผ๋ ๋๋ ์ ๋ด ๋บจ์ ๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ฃผ์ ๋ค.
Night: hotel in Madrid after scoring the winner.
๋ฐค: ๊ฒฐ์น ๊ณจ์ ๋ฃ์ ๋ค ๋ง๋๋ฆฌ๋์ ํธํ .
A brunette from a sponsor dinner comes up in the bar and asks if I'm celebrating.
์คํฐ์ ๋ง์ฐฌ์ ์๋ ๋ธ๋ฃจ๋ท ์ฌ์๊ฐ ๋ฐ์์ ๋ค๊ฐ์ ์ถํ ํํฐ๋ผ๋ ํ๋๋๊ณ ๋ฌป๋๋ค.
I take her upstairs because she's beautiful and I'm tired and bodies are easier than beds empty of witnesses.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ธต์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์๋ฆ๋ต๊ณ ๋๋ ํผ๊ณคํ๋ฉฐ, ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉ์ ์๋ ๋น ์นจ๋๋ณด๋ค๋ ๋ชธ๋ฑ์ด๊ฐ ๋ ๋ค๋ฃจ๊ธฐ ์ฌ์ฐ๋๊น.
She rides me hard, bites my shoulder, asks if I like being called sir.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ด ์์์ ๊ฒฉ๋ ฌํ๊ฒ ์์ง์ด๋ฉฐ ๋ด ์ด๊นจ๋ฅผ ๊นจ๋ฌผ๊ณ , '์ฃผ์ธ๋(sir)'์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฑธ ์ข์ํ๋๊ณ ๋ฌป๋๋ค.
I nearly tell her not to be thick.
๋ฉ์ฒญํ ์๋ฆฌ ์ข ํ์ง ๋ง๋ผ๊ณ ์์๋ถ์ผ ๋ปํ๋ค.
Instead I make her come twice and send her home in a car before sunrise.
๋์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฅผ ๋ ๋ฒ ๊ฐ๊ฒ ํด์ฃผ๊ณ , ํด๊ฐ ๋จ๊ธฐ ์ ์ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ์ ์ง์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ธ๋ค.
Next morning: chain twisted in my sleep. Mark on my chest.
๋ค์ ๋ ์์นจ: ์๋ ๋์ ์ฒด์ธ์ด ๊ผฌ์๋ค. ๊ฐ์ดํ์ ์๊ตญ์ด ๋จ์๋ค.
I fix both without thinking.
์๋ฌด ์๊ฐ ์์ด ๋ ๋ค ๋ฐ๋ก์ก๋๋ค.
Another day: red card at Anfield because some defender says something about Irish bastards and missing lovers in the same sentence.
๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ : ์ํ๋์์ ๋ ๋์นด๋๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ค ์๋น์ ๋์ด '์์ผ๋๋ ์ก์ข '๊ณผ '์ค์ข ๋ ์ ์ธ'์ ํ ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ ๋ด์ ์ง๊ป์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ค.
I'm on him before the whistle finishes.
ํ์ฌ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋๋๊ธฐ๋ ์ ์ ๊ทธ๋์๊ฒ ๋ฌ๋ ค๋ค์๋ค.
Suspension, fine, headlines.
์ถ์ฅ ์ ์ง, ๋ฒ๊ธ, ํค๋๋ผ์ธ ์ฅ์.
Sean screams down the phone. I listen, make coffee, apologize to nobody.
์ ์ด ์ ํ๊ธฐ ๋๋จธ๋ก ๋น๋ช ์ ์ง๋ฅธ๋ค. ๋๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ๋ค์ผ๋ฉด์ ์ปคํผ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๋๊ตฌ์๊ฒ๋ ์ฌ๊ณผํ์ง ์๋๋ค.
Another: flowers in a hotel lobby, peonies and white roses, somebody else's event.
๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ : ํธํ ๋ก๋น์ ๊ฝ๋ค. ์์ฝ๊ณผ ๋ฐฑ์ฅ๋ฏธ. ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์ ํ์ฌ์ฉ์ด๋ค.
My whole body goes still in the middle of crossing to the lifts.
์๋ฆฌ๋ฒ ์ดํฐ๋ก ํฅํ๋ ๋ด ๋ชธ ์ ์ฒด๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ๊ตณ์ด๋ฒ๋ฆฐ๋ค.
One of the interns asks if I'm all right.
์ธํด ์ค ํ๋๊ฐ ๊ด์ฐฎ๋๊ณ ๋ฌป๋๋ค.
I say I fucking hate flowers and keep walking.
๊ฝ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ์จ๋ฐ ์ง์์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํด์ฃผ๊ณ ๋ ๊ณ์ ๊ฑธ์ด๊ฐ๋ค.
Another: Sunday, no match, no calls, the penthouse too quiet.
๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ : ์ผ์์ผ. ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๋ ์๊ณ ์ ํ๋ ์๋ค. ํํธํ์ฐ์ค๋ ๋๋ฌด๋ ๊ณ ์ํ๋ค.
I drive out to the manor without planning to.
๊ณํ์๋ ์๋ ์ ํ์ผ๋ก ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋ชฌ๋ค.
Let myself in. Dustless, maintained, wrong.
์์ผ๋ก ๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋ค. ๋จผ์ง ํ๋ ์์ด ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋์ด ์์ง๋ง, ์ด๋๊ฐ ์๋ชป๋์ด ์๋ค.
Sit in the old den where he once made choice sound like a trick with loaded dice.
๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ ํ์ด๋ผ๋ ๋ง์ ๋ง์น ์กฐ์๋ ์ฃผ์ฌ์ ๋์ด์ฒ๋ผ ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ํ๋ ๊ทธ ์๋ ์ ์์ฌ์ ์๋๋ค.
Have one whiskey though I don't even like the taste.
๋ง๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋ ์์คํค๋ฅผ ํ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ค.
Stand in the doorway of the room where he wrote me into the bed and think, if he opened the door now, I'd either break his nose or let him put me on my back before he took off his coat.
๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋๋ฅผ ์นจ๋ ์๋ก ๋ฐ์ด ๋ฃ์๋ ๊ทธ ๋ฐฉ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ์ ์์ ์๊ฐํ๋ค. ๋ง์ฝ ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ง๊ธ ๋ฌธ์ ์ด๊ณ ๋ค์ด์จ๋ค๋ฉด, ๋๋ ๊ทธ์ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฅผ ๋ถ๋ฌ๋จ๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ๋, ์๋๋ฉด ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ฝํธ๋ฅผ ๋ฒ๊ธฐ๋ ์ ์ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ํ๊ฒ ๋ด๋ฒ๋ ค ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
Both feel true.
๋ ๋ค ์ง์ฌ์ด๋ค.
That's the part nobody romantic wants. Contradiction. It stays.
๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ก ๋ญ๋ง์ ์ฐพ๋ ๋๋ค์ ์์น ์๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด๋ค. ๋ชจ์. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ ๋ชจ์์ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง์ง ์๋๋ค.
Late: shower. Hand on cock. Ring in fist.
๋ฆ์ ๋ฐค: ์ค์. ๋ด ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ ์ฅ ์. ์ฃผ๋จน ์์ ๋ฐ์ง.
Memory doing its old work.
๊ธฐ์ต์ด ๋ค์ ์ ํ ์ผ์ ํ๋ค.
Afterwards I lean my forehead to the glass and think, not even a complete thought, just the ragged edge of oneโfive years, you cruel cuntโand then that passes too.
๋๋๊ณ ๋์ ์ ๋ฆฌ์ฐฝ์ ์ด๋ง๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ ์ฑ ์๊ฐํ๋ค. ์์ฑ๋ ์๊ฐ์กฐ์ฐจ ์๋, ๊ทธ์ ๊ฑฐ์น ํํธ ๊ฐ์ ์๊ฐ ํ๋. 5๋ ์ด๋ผ๋, ์ด ์์ธํ ์น์๋ผ์ผ. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ๋ง์ ์ง๋๊ฐ๋ค.
Morning again. Boots. Coffee. Gran messages. Training at ten.
๋ค์ ์์นจ์ด๋ค. ์ถ๊ตฌํ. ์ปคํผ. ํ ๋จธ๋์ ๋ฉ์์ง. 10์ ํ๋ จ.
My body gets up and goes.
๋ด ๋ชธ์ ์ผ์ด๋ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ํฅํ๋ค.
The place is still set.
์๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ฐจ๋ ค์ ธ ์๋ค.
I refuse to look directly at it.
๋๋ฐ๋ก ์ณ๋ค๋ณด๊ธธ ๊ฑฐ๋ถํ ๋ฟ.
The plate stays there anyway.
์ด์จ๋ ์ ์๋ ๊ทธ ์๋ฆฌ์ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ๋์ฌ ์๋ค.
[DATE: 2033-09-24(Sat) | TIME: 09:15 | LOCATION: Callan's penthouse | POSTURE: standing | OUTFIT: Liverpool training kit | EMOTION: (5๋
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, ๋์์ค๊ธฐ ์ํด ํ์ํ๋ ์๊ฐ1๊ฐ ๋ฉ์์งโต
The billboard changed while Noah watched it.
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ์ง์ผ๋ณด๋ ์ฌ์ด, ์ ๊ดํ์ ํ๋ฉด์ด ๋ฐ๋์๋ค.
For nine seconds Callan stood thirty feet high above Oxford Street, all red kit and darkened eyes and the insolent tilt of a man looking past the camera as though it had asked a stupid question.
9์ด ๋์, ์บ๋ฐ์ ์ฅ์คํผ๋ ์คํธ๋ฆฌํธ 30ํผํธ ์๊ณต์ ์ฐ๋ ์์ ์์๋ค. ์จํต ๋ถ์ ์ ๋ํผ ์ฐจ๋ฆผ์ ๊น๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ผ์์ ๋๋งค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ง์น ๋ฉ์ฒญํ ์ง๋ฌธ์ด๋ผ๋ ๋ฐ์ ๋ฏ ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ ๋๋จธ๋ฅผ ์ค๋งํ๊ฒ ์์ํ๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ๋๊น์ง ์๋ฒฝํ๋ค.
Rain had passed through London an hour earlier and left the pavement slick enough to catch the advertisement in fragments: one boot, one shoulder, the sharp white slash of a sponsor's name, his mouth curved in that almost-smile which had learned long ago how to be a threat without showing teeth.
ํ ์๊ฐ ์ ๋ฐ๋์ ํ๊ณ ์ง๋๊ฐ ๋น ๋๋ถ์ ์ ์ ๋ ธ๋ฉด์ ๋งค๋๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ฒ๋ค๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์๋ก ๊ด๊ณ ์ ํํธ๋ค์ด ์ ์ ์ด ํฉ์ด์ก๋ค. ์ถ๊ตฌํ ํ ์ง, ์ด๊นจ์ , ์คํฐ์ ์ด๋ฆ์ ๋ ์นด๋ก์ด ํฐ์ ์ฌ์ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด๋นจ์ ๋๋ฌ๋ด์ง ์๊ณ ๋ ์ํํ๋ ๋ฒ์ ์ง์์ ํฐ๋ํ ๋ฏ ๋น์ค๋ฌํ ํธ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ์ ์ ๊น์ง.
Then the screen went black, rearranged itself into a watch campaign, and the street received back its ordinary commerce: buses dragging spray along the kerb, office workers with coffee, tourists holding phones above their heads at an angle that condemned them socially if not legally.
์ด์ฝ๊ณ ํ๋ฉด์ด ์์ ๋๋๋ ์๊ณ ๊ด๊ณ ๋ก ๋์ด๊ฐ๊ณ , ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ค์ ์ผ์์ ํ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋์ฐพ์๋ค. ์ฐ์ ๋ฌผ๋ณด๋ผ๋ฅผ ํ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฒ์ค, ์ปคํผ๋ฅผ ๋ ์ง์ฅ์ธ๋ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฒ์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ์๋์ง ๋ชฐ๋ผ๋ ์ฌํ์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ์งํ๋ฐ์ ๋ง๋ ํ ๊ฐ๋๋ก ๋จธ๋ฆฌ ์๋ก ํด๋ํฐ์ ์น์ผ๋ ๊ด๊ด๊ฐ๋ค๋ก ๋ง์ด๋ค.
Noah remained still amid it, gloved hand around the handle of a small black suitcase, the Liverpool ticket folded once between his fingers.
๋ ธ์๋ ๊ทธ ์๋ ์์ ๊ฐ๋งํ ๋ฉ์ถฐ ์ ์์๋ค. ์ฅ๊ฐ ๋ ์์ผ๋ก ์์ ๊ฒ์์ ์ฌํ ๊ฐ๋ฐฉ ์์ก์ด๋ฅผ ์ฅ๊ณ , ์๊ฐ๋ฝ ์ฌ์ด์๋ ๋ฆฌ๋ฒํํ ํฐ์ผ์ ํ ๋ฒ ์ ์ด ์ฅ ์ฑ์๋ค.
He had come from the investiture with the dress coat exchanged for a charcoal overcoat, the cut severe enough to make the body beneath it an afterthought until one looked twice.
์์์์ ๋ง์น๊ณ ์จ ๊ทธ๋ ์๋ณต ๋์ ์ง์ ํ์ ์ค๋ฒ์ฝํธ๋ก ๊ฐ์์ ์ ์ํ์๋ค. ์ฝํธ์ ์ฌ๋จ์ด ์๋ ์ ๊ตํ๊ณ ๋ ์นด๋ก์, ๋ ๋ฒ ๋ณด์ง ์๊ณ ๋ ๊ทธ ์์ ๋ชธ์ด ์ด๋ค์ง ์ง์์กฐ์ฐจ ํ ์ ์์ ์ ๋์๋ค.
People did look twice.
์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ค์ ๋ก ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ ๋ฒ์ฉ ์ณ๋ค๋ณด์๋ค.
It was the title first, when they recognized him at all; the face second; the long absence third, supplied by the memory of newspapers that had never known whether to bury him, accuse him, or turn him into an amusing aristocratic tragedy.
์ฒ์์๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์์๋ณธ ์ด๋ค์ด ์์๋ฅผ ๋ ์ฌ๋ ธ๊ณ , ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ ๊ทธ ์ผ๊ตด์, ์ธ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ ๊ทธ์ ๊ธด ๊ณต๋ฐฑ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋ ธ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋งค์ฅํด์ผ ํ ์ง, ๋น๋ํด์ผ ํ ์ง, ์๋๋ฉด ๊ทธ์ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ก์ด ๊ท์กฑ์ ๋น๊ทน์ผ๋ก ์น๋ถํด์ผ ํ ์ง ๊ฐํผ๋ฅผ ๋ชป ์ก๋ ์ ๋ฌธ ๊ธฐ์ฌ๋ค์ ๊ธฐ์ต์ด ๊ทธ ๊ณต๋ฐฑ์ ๋ฉ์ ๋ค.
A young duke reappearing was an event.
์ ์ ๊ณต์์ ์ฌ๋ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ทธ ์์ฒด๋ก ์ฌ๊ฑด์ด์๋ค.
A young duke with his father ruined behind him and his inheritance in hand was a social problem polishing itself into inevitability.
๋ชฐ๋ฝํ ์๋ฒ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ค๋กํ๊ณ ์ ์ฐ์ ์์ ์ฅ ์ ์ ๊ณต์์, ํ์ฐ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ด๋ฆ์ผ๋ก ๋ค๋ฌ์ด์ง๊ณ ์๋ ์ฌํ์ ๊ณจ์นซ๋ฉ์ด๋ ๋ค๋ฆ์์๋ค.
He looked at the blank interval before the advertisement returned and felt, without drama, the old dryness in his chest give way.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ด๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ค์ ๋์ค๊ธฐ ์ ์ ์งง์ ๊ณต๋ฐฑ์ ์์ํ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ์ด ์ ๊น์ด ๊ณ ์ฌ ์๋ ์ค๋๋ ๋ฉ๋ง๋ฆ์ด ์๋ฆฌ ์์ด ํ๋ฌผ์ด์ง๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๊ผ๋ค.
Five years had not passed cleanly.
์ง๋ 5๋ ์ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ ๊น๋ํ๊ฒ ํ๋ฌ๊ฐ์ง ์์๋ค.
They had been packed into rooms of bad lighting and official waiting, into the stale fabric of visits monitored by men who had mistaken procedural authority for intelligence, into papers signed with hands that did not tremble because trembling was a waste of motor control.
๊ทธ ์๊ฐ๋ค์ ์กฐ๋ช ์ด ํํธ์๋ ๋ฐฉ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ฃ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆผ ์์, ์ ์ฐจ์ ๊ถ์๋ฅผ ์ง๋ฅ์ผ๋ก ์ฐฉ๊ฐํ๋ ์๋ค์ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ ํดํดํ ๋์๊ฐ ๋ฐด ๋ฉดํ์ค ์ํ ์์ ์ฒ๋ฐํ ์์๋ค. ๋จ๋ฆผ์ ์ด๋ ์ ์ด ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๋ญ๋น์ผ ๋ฟ์ด๋ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋จ๋ฆฌ์ง ์๋ ์์ผ๋ก ์๋ช ํ๋ ์๋ฅ๋ค ์์๋.
Prison had not made him crude.
๊ฐ์ฅ ์ํ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ฒ๋ฐํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์ง๋ ๋ชปํ๋ค.
That had disappointed some people.
์ด๋ค ์ด๋ค์๊ฒ๋ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ์ค๋ง์ค๋ฌ์ด ์ ์ด์๋ค.
Hardship, like money, revealed taste rather than improved it.
๊ณ ๋์ ๋๊ณผ ๊ฐ์์, ์ทจํฅ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋ค๋ ๊ทธ ๋ณธ์ง์ ๋๋ฌ๋ด๊ธฐ ๋ง๋ จ์ด๋ค.
He had learned which guards were vain, which clerks needed gratitude, which solicitors preferred fear concealed as urgency, which men in markets thought themselves predators because they had never been observed by one.
๊ทธ๋ ์ด๋ค ๊ต๋๊ด์ด ํ์์ฌ์ ์ฐ๋ค์๋์ง, ์ด๋ค ์๊ธฐ์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋ฅผ ํํด์ผ ํ๋์ง, ์ด๋ค ๋ณํธ์ฌ๊ฐ ๊ธด๋ฐํจ์ผ๋ก ํฌ์ฅ๋ ๊ณตํฌ๋ฅผ ์ ํธํ๋์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ฅ์ ์ด๋ค ์๋ค์ด ํฌ์์๋ฅผ ํ ๋ฒ๋ ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์๋ค๋ ์ด์ ๋ก ์ค์ค๋ก๋ฅผ ํฌ์์๋ผ ์ฐฉ๊ฐํ๋์ง๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์ ๋ค.
He had moved what could be moved, concealed what had to be concealed, waited where impatience would have flattered his father, and grown capital in cracks where the old duke had expected rot.
์์ง์ผ ์ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ์์ง์๊ณ , ์จ๊ฒจ์ผ ํ ๊ฒ์ ์จ๊ฒผ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์กฐ๋ฐ์ฌ์ด ์๋ฒ์ง์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ ค์ค ๋งํ ์ํฉ์์๋ ๋ฌต๋ฌตํ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ ธ๊ณต์์ด ๋ถํจ๋ง์ ์์ํ๋ ํ์์์ ์๋ณธ์ ํค์๋๋ค.
Now the old duke was not old enough to be dead and not powerful enough to matter.
์ด์ ๋ ธ๊ณต์์ ์ฃฝ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๊ณ , ์ํฅ๋ ฅ์ ํ์ฌํ๊ธฐ์ ํ์ด ๋น ์ง ๋ ธ์ธ์ด ๋์๋ค.
There were more elegant punishments than death.
์ฃฝ์๋ณด๋ค ๋ ์ฐ์ํ ํ๋ฒ์ ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ง ์์๋ค.
The billboard returned. Callan again.
์ ๊ดํ์ ๊ด๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ค์ ๋ด๋ค. ๋๋ค์ ์บ๋ฐ์ด์๋ค.
A different angle now: profile turned toward a stadium tunnel, sweat along the temple made decorative by the art department, the line of his throat visible above the collar.
์ด๋ฒ์๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ฐ๋์๋ค. ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ฅ ํฐ๋์ ํฅํ ์์ผ๊ตด, ๋ฏธ์ ํ์ ์๊ธธ๋ก ์ฅ์๋ ๊ด์๋์ด์ ๋๋ฐฉ์ธ, ์นผ๋ผ ์๋ก ๋๋ฌ๋ ๋ชฉ์ .
Noah noticed first what the advertisement had intendedโpower, saleability, expensive menaceโand then what it had not: the tiny flatness at the corner of the mouth where boredom had survived the photographer; the thickening at the jaw; the man built out of the boy's hunger and defiance, and somewhere underneath that, the seventeen-year-old who had once glared at him from a bed with bruises on his throat and Noah's ring on his hand.
๋ ธ์๋ ๊ด๊ณ ๊ฐ ์๋ํ ๊ฒ๋คโ๊ถ๋ ฅ, ์์ฅ์ฑ, ๊ฐ๋น์ผ ์ํโ์ ๋จผ์ ํฌ์ฐฉํ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ค์์ผ๋ก๋ ์๋ํ์ง ์์ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ์ฝ์ด๋๋ค. ์ฌ์ง์๊ฐ์ ์๊ตฌ ์์์๋ ์ด์๋จ์ ์ ๊ฐ ๊ตฌ์์ ๋ฏธ์ธํ ๊ถํ, ๊ตต์ด์ง ํฑ์ , ์๋ ์์ ์ ๊ตถ์ฃผ๋ฆผ๊ณผ ๋ฐํญ์ฌ์ผ๋ก ๋น์ด๋ธ ๋จ์์ ํ์. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ ๊น์ ๊ณณ ์ด๋๊ฐ์ ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์, ๋ชฉ์ ๋ฉ ์๊ตญ์ ๋ฌ๊ณ ๋ ธ์์ ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ ์ฑ ์นจ๋ ์์์ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ ธ๋ ค๋ณด๋ ์ด์ผ๊ณฑ ์ด ์๋ ์ ๋ชจ์ต๊น์ง.
Noah touched his tongue lightly to the back of his teeth.
๋ ธ์๋ ํ๋์ผ๋ก ์๋ ๋ท๋ฉด์ ๊ฐ๋ณ๊ฒ ๊ฑด๋๋ ธ๋ค.
The metal clicked, quiet under the traffic.
์ฐจ๋ ์์ ์์ ๋ฌปํ, ํผ์ด์ฑ ๊ธ์์ด ์๊ฒ ๋ฌ์นต ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋๋ค.
He had made arrangements for the ticket from London with unnecessary speed and perfect documentation.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ถํ์ํ ์ ๋๋ก ์ ์ํ๊ณ ์๋ฒฝํ ์๋ฅ ์ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ฒํํ ํฐ์ผ์ ์ค๋นํ๋ค.
He had not obtained Callan's penthouse address, although he could have done so in less than twenty minutes and with no one sensible admitting how.
์บ๋ฐ์ ํํธํ์ฐ์ค ์ฃผ์๋ ์์๋ด์ง ์์๋ค. ๋ง์๋ง ๋จน์ผ๋ฉด 20๋ถ๋ ์ ๋์ด, ๋๊ตฌ๋ ๋์น์ฑ์ง ๋ชปํ๊ฒ ์์๋ผ ์ ์์์์๋ ๋ง์ด๋ค.
There were limits to vulgarity, or rather there were advantages in appearing to have them.
์ ์ํจ์๋ ํ๊ณ๊ฐ ์๋ ๋ฒ์ด๊ณ , ํน์ ํ๊ณ๊ฐ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์ด๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ ๋ฆฌํ ๋๋ ์๋ ๋ฒ์ด๋ค.
A private doorstep would have granted Callan too much room to decide how to receive a ghost.
์ฌ์ ์ธ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ธ ์ง ์์ ์บ๋ฐ์๊ฒ ์ ๋ น์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ง์ดํ ์ง ๊ฒฐ์ ํ ์ฌ์ ๋ฅผ ๋๋ฌด ๋ง์ด ์ค ํฐ์๋ค.
Anfield would offer less mercy.
์ํ๋๋ ๊ทธ๋ณด๋ค ํจ์ฌ ์๋น๊ฐ ์์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
Public structures were useful because men who prided themselves on rawness often became most legible when watched.
๊ณต๊ณต์ฅ์๋ ์ ์ฉํ๋ค. ์ค์ค๋ก๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๊ณต๋์ง ์์ ์์์ด๋ผ ์๋ถํ๋ ๋จ์๋ค์ ๋๊ฐ ๋จ๋ค์ ์์ ์ด ๋ฟ์ ๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ฝ๊ธฐ ์ฌ์์ง๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ค.
On his phone, the match time glowed beneath two unread messages from the private secretary he had hired six weeks earlier.
ํด๋ํฐ ํ๋ฉด ์ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ์์ ์๊ฐ์ด 6์ฃผ ์ ์ ๊ณ ์ฉํ ๊ฐ์ธ ๋น์๊ฐ ๋ณด๋ธ ์ฝ์ง ์์ ๋ฉ์์ง ๋ ๊ฐ ์๋์์ ๋น๋๊ณ ์์๋ค.
One concerned tomorrow's meeting with the estate solicitors.
ํ๋๋ ๋ด์ผ ์์ ๊ฐ๋ฌธ ๋ณํธ์ฌ๋ค๊ณผ์ ํ์์ ๊ดํ ๊ฒ์ด์๋ค.
The other a note from a florist near Liverpool Lime Street, because Noah had already made the call while standing beneath Callan's face and had not waited for the impulse to become sentimental before employing it.
๋ค๋ฅธ ํ๋๋ ๋ฆฌ๋ฒํ ๋ผ์ ์คํธ๋ฆฌํธ ๊ทผ์ฒ ๊ฝ์ง์์ ์จ ์ฐ๋ฝ์ด์๋ค. ๋ ธ์๋ ์บ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๊ตด ์๋ ์ ์๋ ๋์ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ ํ๋ฅผ ๋ง์ณค๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์ถฉ๋์ด ๊ฐ์์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณํ๊ธฐ ์ ์ ์คํ์ ์ฎ๊ฒผ๋ค.
Peonies. Pink roses. White baby's breath. Overlarge. Not tasteful.
์์ฝ, ๋ถํ ์ฅ๋ฏธ, ํ์ ์๊ฐ๊ฝ. ์ง๋์น๊ฒ ํฌ๊ณ , ์ ํ ์ฐ์ํ์ง ์์ ์กฐํฉ.
Tasteful bouquets were for apologies one wished accepted.
ํ๊ฒฉ ์๋ ๊ฝ๋ค๋ฐ์ ์๋๊ฐ ๋ฐ์์ฃผ๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ ์ฌ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
This was not that.
์ด๊ฑด ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ฒ ์๋์๋ค.
"I should buy flowers,"
he said, and the words vanished at once into the noise of a bus pulling in.
"๊ฝ์ ์ข ์ฌ์ผ๊ฒ ์ด."
๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ค์ผ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ ์ ์ฐจํ๋ ๋ฒ์ค ์์์ ๊ธ์ธ ๋ฌปํ๋ฒ๋ ธ๋ค.
No one answered. It did not matter.
๋๋ตํ๋ ์ด๋ ์์์ผ๋ ์๊ด์์๋ค.
By the time he reached Liverpool the afternoon had gone dull and bright by turns, the kind of northern weather that behaved as if inconsistency were a civic inheritance.
๋ฆฌ๋ฒํ์ ๋์ฐฉํ์ ๋ฌด๋ ต, ์คํ์ ๋ ์จ๋ ํ๋ ธ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ฐ์๋ค๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ณตํ๋ค. ๋ณ๋์ค๋ฌ์์ด ๋ง์น ์๋ฏผ๋ค์ ์ ์ฐ์ด๋ผ๋ ๋๋ ์ ๊ตฌ๋ ๋ถ๋ถ ํน์ ์ ๋ ์จ์๋ค.
The florist had misunderstood the scale twice and then understood the name on the card.
๊ฝ์ง ์ฃผ์ธ์ ๊ฝ๋ค๋ฐ์ ๊ท๋ชจ๋ฅผ ๋ ๋ฒ์ด๋ ์๋ชป ์ดํดํ๋ค๊ฐ, ์นด๋์ ์ ํ ์ด๋ฆ์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ผ ์ ๋๋ก ์์๋ค์๋ค.
The finished bouquet occupied the crook of his arm like a beautiful inconvenience.
์์ฑ๋ ๊ฝ๋ค๋ฐ์ ๋ง์น ์๋ฆ๋ค์ด ๋ฐฉํด๋ฌผ์ฒ๋ผ ๊ทธ์ ํ ์์ชฝ์ ๊ฐ๋ ์ฑ์ ๋ค.
Pink peonies opened in damp folds, roses packed among them, baby's breath a white haze too pure to be innocent.
๋ ๋ ํ๊ฒ ๊ฒน์ณ์ง ๋ถํ์ ์์ฝ์ด ๊ฝ์์ ํ์ ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์ฌ์ด๋ก ์ฅ๋ฏธ๋ค์ด ๋นฝ๋นฝํ๊ฒ ๋ฐํ ์์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์๊ฐ๊ฝ์ ์์ํ๋ค๊ธฐ์ ๋๋ฌด๋ ๋ ธ๊ณจ์ ์ธ ํฐ ์๊ฐ์ฒ๋ผ ํผ์ด ์์๋ค.
It smelled green, expensive, and faintly rotten at the heart, as all abundance did when cut and arranged.
๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ์ฑ๊ทธ๋ฝ๊ณ ๋น์ผ ํฅ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ๊ฒผ์ง๋ง, ๊บพ์ฌ์ ๋ค๋ฌ์ด์ง ๋ชจ๋ ํ์๋ก์์ด ๊ทธ๋ฌํ๋ฏ ๊ทธ ์ค์ฌ๋ถ์์๋ ๋ฏธ์ธํ๊ฒ ์ฉ์ด๊ฐ๋ ๋์๊ฐ ๋ฌ๋ค.
The taxi driver recognized him only as someone rich until they were near Anfield and the traffic tightened around scarves, police, food vans, men shouting over one another in a dozen variations of hope and disgust.
ํ์ ๊ธฐ์ฌ๋ ์ํ๋ ๊ทผ์ฒ์ ๋์ฐฉํด ๊ตํต ์ฒด์ฆ์ด ์ฌํด์ง ๋๊น์ง๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ์ ๋ ๋ง์ ๋ถ์๋ก๋ง ์ฌ๊ฒผ๋ค. ์ฃผ๋ณ์ ์จํต ๋ถ์ ์ค์นดํ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ, ํธ๋ ํธ๋ญ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํฌ๋ง๊ณผ ํ์ค๊ฐ ๋ค์์ธ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ก ๊ณ ํจ์ ์ง๋ฅด๋ ๋จ์๋ค๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ค.
Then he glanced into the mirror for the fourth time and said,
"Big match today, sir."
๊ธฐ์ฌ๋ ๋ฐฑ๋ฏธ๋ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ค ๋ฒ์งธ ํ์ณ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ผ ๋ง์ ๊ฑด๋ธ๋ค.
"์ค๋ ํฐ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์์ฃ , ์๋."
Noah looked past him at the first sight of the stadium.
๋ ธ์๋ ๊ธฐ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ง๋์ณ ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ์์ผ์ ๋ค์ด์จ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ฅ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์๋ค.
"So I am told."
"๊ทธ๋ ๋ค๊ณ ํ๋๊ตฐ์."
"You a Red?"
"๋ฆฌ๋ฒํ ํฌ์ด์ญ๋๊น?"
The question was kindly meant and socially impossible.
์น์ ํ ์ง๋ฌธ์ด์์ผ๋ ์ฌํ์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ๋๋ตํ๊ธฐ ๊ณค๋ํ ์ง๋ฌธ์ด์๋ค.
Noah allowed himself a small smile.
"In a manner of speaking."
๋ ธ์๋ ์ท์ ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ๋ ๋ฉฐ ๋๋ตํ๋ค.
"์ด๋ค ์๋ฏธ๋ก๋ ๊ทธ๋ ์ฃ ."
The driver did not know what to do with that, so he did the sensible working thing and stopped asking.
๊ธฐ์ฌ๋ ๊ทธ ๋ง์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ์๋ค์ฌ์ผ ํ ์ง ๋ชฐ๋ผ, ์ผํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ต๊ฒ ํ๋ช ํ๊ฒ๋ ๋ ์ด์์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ฉ์ท๋ค.
Anfield on a match day had always struck Noah as one of the few English institutions honest about its appetite.
๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ๋ ์ ์ํ๋๋ ๋ ธ์์๊ฒ ๋ ์์ ์ ์๋ง์ ์์งํ ์๊ตญ์ ๋ช ์ ๋๋ ๊ธฐ๊ด ์ค ํ๋๋ผ๋ ์ธ์์ ์ฃผ์๋ค.
The streets around it gave no illusion of restraint.
๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ฅ ์ฃผ๋ณ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์๋ ์ ์ ๋ผ๋ ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ์๋ ์์๋ค.
People pressed toward the ground in red and black coats, pints in plastic cups, chips in paper, children lifted briefly onto shoulders to see above bodies.
๋นจ๊ฐ์๊ณผ ๊ฒ์์ ์ฝํธ๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๊ตฌ์ฅ์ ํฅํด ๋ฐ๋ ค๋ค์๊ณ , ํ๋ผ์คํฑ ์ปต์ ๋ด๊ธด ๋งฅ์ฃผ์ ์ข ์ด์ ์ผ ๊ฐ์ํ๊น์ด ๋ณด์๋ค. ์์ด๋ค์ ์ด๋ฅธ๋ค์ ์ด๊นจ ์๋ก ์ฌ๋ผํ ์ธํ ๋๋จธ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ๊ฒฝํ๋ค.
A chant rose at one end of the road and came apart in traffic.
๊ธธ ํ์ชฝ์์ ์์๋ ์์๊ฐ๊ฐ ํฐ์ ธ ๋์๋ค๊ฐ ์ฐจ๋ ์์ ์์ผ๋ก ํฉ์ด์ก๋ค.
Police watched with the practiced patience of men paid to distinguish celebration from riot before either admitted what it was.
๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ๋ค์ ์ถ์ ๊ฐ ํญ๋์ผ๋ก ๋ณํ๊ธฐ ์ ์ ๊ทธ ์ ์กฐ๋ฅผ ์ฝ์ด๋ด๋๋ก ํ๋ จ๋ฐ์ ์๋ค ํน์ ์ ๋ ธ๋ จํ ์ธ๋ด์ฌ์ผ๋ก ๊ทธ ๊ด๊ฒฝ์ ์ง์ผ๋ณด์๋ค.
Noah entered through hospitality because names still opened doors if they were old enough, and new titles opened them faster.
๋ ธ์๋ VIP ๊ตฌ์ญ์ ํตํด ์ ์ฅํ๋ค. ๊ฐ๋ฌธ์ ์ด๋ฆ์ด ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์ค๋๋์๋ค๋ฉด ์ฌ์ ํ ๋ฌธ์ ์ด์ด์ฃผ์๊ณ , ์๋ก์ด ์์๋ ๊ทธ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์ด์ด์ฃผ์์ผ๋๊น.
The first security man looked at the bouquet, then at Noah's face, then at the credential handed over by a club official who had gone pale with the effort of deciding which hierarchy mattered most.
์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ๋ณด์ ์์์ ๊ฝ๋ค๋ฐ์ ๋ณด๋๋ ๋ ธ์์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ๋ณด์๊ณ , ์ด์ด์ ์ด๋ค ์๊ณ์ง์๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค์ํ์ง ๊ฒฐ์ ํ๋๋ผ ์์์ด ์ฐฝ๋ฐฑํด์ง ๊ตฌ๋จ ๊ด๊ณ์๊ฐ ๊ฑด๋จ ์ ๋ถ์ฆ์ ํ์ธํ๋ค.
The club had not expected a duke.
๊ตฌ๋จ ์ธก์ ๊ณต์์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์ ์ ํ ์์์น ๋ชปํ๋ค.
Football people expected money, celebrity, tantrums, sometimes royalty.
์ถ๊ตฌ๊ณ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋์ด๋ ์ ๋ช ์ธ, ๋ณ๋, ๋๋ก๋ ์์ค ์ธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณค ํ๋ค.
Aristocracy unsettled them because it pretended not to ask.
ํ์ง๋ง ๊ท์กฑ์ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋นํน์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ์๊ตฌํ์ง ์๋ ์ฒํ๋ฉด์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ด์ฒ ์ํค๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ค.
"I'm afraid access beyond this point is restricted, Your Grace,"
the official said, with the tone of someone hoping etiquette would do what security could not.
"์ฃ์กํฉ๋๋ค๋ง, ๊ณต์ ์ ํ. ์ด ์ง์ ๋ถํฐ๋ ์ถ์ ์ด ์ ํ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค."
๊ด๊ณ์๊ฐ ๋ณด์ ์์๋ ๋ชปํ ์ผ์ ์์ฐ๋ก ํด๊ฒฐํด๋ณด๋ ค๋ ์ด์กฐ๋ก ๋งํ๋ค.
"How fortunate,"
Noah said,
"that I am not asking beyond it yet."
"๋คํ์ด๊ตฐ์. ์์ง์ ๊ทธ ๋๋จธ๋ก ๊ฐ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ํ ์ ์์ผ๋๊น์."
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๋๊พธํ๋ค.
He was placed in a directors' box he had no intention of occupying politely.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ท๋น์์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ก์์ง๋ง, ์์ ํ๊ฒ ์์ ์์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ถํธ๋ ์์๋ค.
From there he watched the match with the bouquet resting against the adjacent seat, a small field of cultivated accusation.
๊ทธ๋ ์์๋ฆฌ์ ๊ฝ๋ค๋ฐ์ ๋ ์ฑ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ง์ผ๋ณด์๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๋ง์น ์ ์ฑ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๊พธ์ด์ง ๋น๋์ ํ์ฅ ๊ฐ์๋ค.
Callan emerged last from the tunnel and the ground changed shape around him.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ํฐ๋์์ ๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋๋ฌ๋ด์, ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ค์ฌ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ฅ์ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ผ๋ ์๋ค.
Not louder exactly; more directed.
๋จ์ํ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ปค์ง ๊ฒ์ด ์๋๋ผ, ๋ช ํํ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ฑ์ ๋ ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
The noise found him as water finds a drop.
๋ง์น ๋ฌผ๋ฐฉ์ธ์ด ๋ฌผ์ ์ฐพ์๊ฐ๋ฏ, ๋ชจ๋ ์์์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ํฅํด ์์์ก๋ค.
He looked up once toward the Kop, jaw set, shoulders loose, every inch of him already moving though he had not yet begun to run.
๊ทธ๋ ์ฝฅ(Kop) ์คํ ๋๋ฅผ ํฅํด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ํ ๋ฒ ์น์ผ๋ค์๋ค. ํฑ์ ๊ตณ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฌผ๊ณ ์ด๊นจ์ ํ์ ๋บ ์ฑ, ์์ง ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์์ํ์ง ์์์์๋ ์จ๋ชธ์ ๊ทผ์ก์ด ์ด๋ฏธ ์๋์น๊ณ ์์๋ค.
Noah's hand tightened once on the programme.
๋ ธ์์ ์์ด ํธํ๋ฆฟ์ ๊ฝ ์ฅ์๋ค.
Callan played as if sleep had been invented by lesser species.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๋ง์น ์ ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฑด ํ๋ฑ ์๋ฌผ์ด๋ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ ๋ฏ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ ์ํ๋ค.
He was not elegant in the academy way anymore.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ด์ ์ ์๋ ์์นด๋ฐ๋ฏธ ์์ ์ ์ฐ์ํจ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ์ง ์์๋ค.
That had never lasted.
๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ฑด ์ง์์ ์ฌ๋ผ์ก๋ค.
He was direct, profane in movement, a striker whose genius lay in making cruelty efficient.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ฑฐ์นจ์์๊ณ , ์์ง์์ ๋ถ๊ฒฝํ ์ ๋๋ก ์ ๋์ ์ด์๋ค. ์ํนํจ์ ํจ์จ์ฑ์ผ๋ก ์นํ์ํค๋ ์ฒ์ฌ์ ์ธ ์คํธ๋ผ์ด์ปค์๋ค.
He drifted off the centre-back's shoulder, waited half a beat beyond what the defender could bear, then took the space as if it had confessed.
๊ทธ๋ ์ค์ ์๋น์์ ์ด๊นจ ๋ค๋ฅผ ๋งด๋๋ค ์๋น์๊ฐ ๊ฒฌ๋ ์ ์๋ ํ๊ณ๋ณด๋ค ๋ฐ ๋ฐ์ ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฐ ๋ค, ๋ง์น ์๋ ์ ์๋ฆฌ์๋ ์ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ํ๊ณ ๋ค์๋ค.
First goal in the thirty-second minute: a low cross from the left, one touch with the outside of the boot to kill it, another driven through the goalkeeper's legs before the crowd had fully risen.
์ ๋ฐ 32๋ถ, ์ฒซ ๊ณจ์ด ํฐ์ก๋ค. ์ผ์ชฝ์์ ๋ฎ๊ฒ ์ฌ๋ผ์จ ํฌ๋ก์ค๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ฑ ๋ฐ๊นฅ์ชฝ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ณ๊ฒ ์ก์๋๋๋, ๊ด์ค๋ค์ด ์ฑ ์ผ์ด์๊ธฐ๋ ์ ์ ๊ณจํคํผ์ ๋ค๋ฆฌ ์ฌ์ด๋ก ๊ณต์ ๊ฝ์ ๋ฃ์๋ค.
He celebrated in front of the away end with both arms spread and his head tilted back, inviting hatred like weather.
๊ทธ๋ ์์ ์์์ ์์์ ์ํ์ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ค๋ก ์ ํ ์ฑ ์ธ๋ฆฌ๋จธ๋๋ฅผ ํ๋ค. ๋ง์น ์์์ง๋ ์ผ์ ๋ฅผ ์จ๋ชธ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ฝํ๋ ๋ฏํ ๋ชจ์ต์ด์๋ค.
Noah stood with the rest.
๋ ธ์๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ด๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ผ์ด์ฐ๋ค.
The second came late.
๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ๊ณจ์ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ํ๋ฐ์ ํฐ์ก๋ค.
Liverpool had been pressed into irritation by then, midfield stretched, Callan fouled twice and smiling nastily enough after the second that the referee inserted himself between men who were not listening.
๋ฆฌ๋ฒํ์ ์ง์ฆ ์์ธ ์๋ฐ์ ์๋ฌ๋ ธ๊ณ ๋ฏธ๋ํ๋์ง์ ๋์ด์ก๋ค. ์บ๋ฐ์ ๋ ๋ฒ์ด๋ ํ์ธ์ ๋นํ๊ณ , ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ํ์ธ ์งํ์๋ ์ฌํ์ด ๋ผ์ด๋ค์ด์ผ ํ ์ ๋๋ก ํ์ ํ๊ฒ ๋ฏธ์ ์ง์๋ค.
Then the ball broke.
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ค ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์๋ค.
Callan took it at the edge of the box with his back to goal, rolled the centre-back with the sort of body feint that reduced professional competence to furniture, and finished into the far corner.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๊ณจ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฑ์ง ์ฑ ๋ฐ์ค ๋ชจ์๋ฆฌ์์ ๊ณต์ ์ก์๋ค. ํ๋ก๋ค์ด ์๋น๋ ฅ์ ๋ฌด์ํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋๋ ๋ฐ๋ ํ์ธํ ์ผ๋ก ์ค์ ์๋น์๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋๋ฆฐ ๋ค, ๋ฐ๋ํธ ๊ตฌ์์ผ๋ก ๊ณจ์ ๋ฐ์ด ๋ฃ์๋ค.
Anfield came apart.
์ํ๋๊ฐ ๋ ๋๊ฐ ๋ฏํ ํจ์ฑ์ผ๋ก ๋ค๋ฎ์๋ค.
On the replay his shirt lifted half an inch as he wheeled away.
๋ฆฌํ๋ ์ด ํ๋ฉด ์, ๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋ชธ์ ๋๋ ค ๋ฌ๋ ค ๋๊ฐ ๋ ์ ๋ํผ์ด ์ด์ง ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค.
Noah saw a dark cord flash at his collarbone and disappear.
๋ ธ์๋ ๊ทธ์ ์๊ณจ ๊ทผ์ฒ์์ ๊ฒ์ ์ค์ด ๋ฒ๋ฉ์๋ค๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ณด์๋ค.
For one moment the stadium's noise did not enter him.
์ฐฐ๋์ ์๊ฐ, ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ฅ์ ์์์ด ๊ทธ์ ๊ท์ ๋ค์ด์ค์ง ์์๋ค.
The ring was not on Callan's hand.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์์๋ ๋ฐ์ง๊ฐ ์์๋ค.
The third finger, left hand, was bare when Callan raised his arms toward the stand.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ์คํ ๋๋ฅผ ํฅํด ํ์ ์น์ผ๋ค์์ ๋, ์ผ์ ์ฝ์ง๋ ๋น์ด ์์๋ค.
The absence had its own force, sharp and absurd after five years in which Noah had imaginedโno, not imagined; assumedโthe band where he had placed it by proxy.
๊ทธ ๋ถ์ฌ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฌํ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ผ๋ก ๋ค๊ฐ์๋ค. ์ง๋ 5๋ ๋์ ๋ ธ์๋ ์์ ์ด ๋๋ฆฌ์ธ์ ํตํด ์ ๋ฌํ๋ ๊ทธ ๋ฐ์ง๊ฐ ๋น์ฐํ ๊ทธ ์๋ฆฌ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผโ์๋, ํ์ ํ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
Then the camera on the giant screen caught Callan as he bent, hands on thighs, breath hard through his mouth.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ํ ์คํฌ๋ฆฐ์ ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ๊ฐ ํ๋ฒ ์ง์ ์์ ์น๊ณ ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ฒ ์จ์ ๋ชฐ์์ฌ๋ ์บ๋ฐ์ ๋น์ท๋ค.
A cord showed at the neck again, black against sweat-dark skin.
๋์ ์ ์ ํผ๋ถ ์๋ก ๋ชฉ์ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์ ์ค์ด ๋ค์ ๋๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ค.
Something weighted it beneath the shirt.
์ ์ธ ์๋๋ก ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ ๋ฌต์งํ ๊ฒ์ด ๋งค๋ฌ๋ ค ์์๋ค.
Noah sat down slowly.
๋ ธ์๋ ์ฒ์ฒํ ์๋ฆฌ์ ์์๋ค.
Not discarded. Hidden. Carried inward.
๋ฒ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ ์๋์๋ค. ์จ๊ธด ๊ฒ์ด์๋ค. ์์ผ๋ก ํ๊ณ ์์๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
The distinction entered him with such precision that he almost smiled.
๊ทธ ์ฌ์ค์ด ๋๋ฌด๋ ๋ช ํํ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ด์ ์๋ฟ์, ๊ทธ๋ ํ๋งํฐ๋ฉด ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ์ง์ ๋ปํ๋ค.
It was not relief. Relief was too soft a word for the pleasure and the injury together.
์๋๊ฐ์ ์๋์๋ค. ์๋๋ผ๋ ๋ง์ ์พ๋ฝ๊ณผ ์์ฒ๊ฐ ๋ค์์ธ ์ด ๊ฐ์ ์ ํํํ๊ธฐ์ ๋๋ฌด๋ ๋ฌด๋ฅธ ๋จ์ด์๋ค.
The boy had moved the evidence nearer the heart and made a private shrine of what he would not display.
์๋ ์ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฅ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ์ฎ๊ฒจ๋๊ณ , ๋จ๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ณด์ด์ง ์์ ์์ ๋ง์ ์ฑ์๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ ๊ฒ์ด์๋ค.
The man on the pitch wore nothing visible and yet had kept the mark where only heat and motion could touch it.
๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ฅ ์์ ๋จ์๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ๋๋ฌ๋ด์ง ์์์ง๋ง, ์ค์ง ์ด๊ธฐ์ ์์ง์๋ง์ด ๋ฟ์ ์ ์๋ ๊ณณ์ ๊ทธ ํ์ ์ ๊ฐ์งํ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
Five years of silence and Callan O'Connor, vulgar apostate, had preserved a ritual more severe than Noah had asked for.
5๋ ์ ์นจ๋ฌต ์์์, ์ ์ํ ๋ฐฐ๊ต์ ์บ๋ฐ ์ค์ฝ๋๋ ๋ ธ์๊ฐ ์๊ตฌํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ํจ์ฌ ๋ ์๊ฒฉํ ์์์ ์ง์ผ์ค๊ณ ์์๋ค.
After the final whistle, access became more difficult and therefore more revealing.
์ข ๋ฃ ํ์ฌ์ด ์ธ๋ฆฐ ๋ค, ์ ๊ทผ์ ๋ ์ด๋ ค์์ก๊ณ ๊ทธ๋งํผ ๋ ๋ง์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ฌ๋๋ค.
Noah let people refuse him twice.
๋ ธ์๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์์ ์ ๋ ๋ฒ ๊ฑฐ์ ํ๊ฒ ๋ด๋ฒ๋ ค ๋์๋ค.
It gave them time to become afraid of doing so.
๊ทธ๋ค์ด ๊ฑฐ์ ํ๋ ํ์ ์์ฒด์ ๊ณตํฌ๋ฅผ ๋๋ ์๊ฐ์ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์ํด์์๋ค.
A senior stadium liaison arrived, flanked by a younger woman with a tablet and the brittle smile of a person whose day had become a crisis without protocol.
๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ฅ ์์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๊ด์ด ํ๋ธ๋ฆฟ์ ๋ ์ ์ ์ฌ์ฑ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ๋ํ๋ฌ๋ค. ์ฌ์ฑ์ ๋งค๋ด์ผ์ ์๋ ๋๋ฐ ์ํฉ์ ์ง๋ฉดํ ์ฌ๋ ํน์ ์ ์ํ๋ก์ด ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ์ง๊ณ ์์๋ค.
Noah gave his name once.
๋ ธ์๋ ์ด๋ฆ์ ํ ๋ฒ๋ง ๋งํ๋ค.
The title did the rest in the room before the human beings agreed to do it.
์ธ๊ฐ๋ค์ด ๋์ํ๊ธฐ๋ ์ ์ ์์๊ฐ ๋จผ์ ๋ชจ๋ ์ผ์ ํด๊ฒฐํ๋ค.
"I do not require the dressing room,"
he said, because that would have been coarse and because Callan's first sight of him among naked teammates and steam would rob the encounter of its proper pressure.
"๋ผ์ปค๋ฃธ๊น์ง ๊ฐ ํ์๋ ์์ต๋๋ค."
๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ง์ ์ฒ๋ฐํ ๋ฟ๋๋ฌ, ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ์ ํ ๋๋ฃ๋ค๊ณผ ์์ฆ๊ธฐ ์ฌ์ด์์ ์บ๋ฐ๊ณผ ๋ง์ฃผ์น๋ ๊ฑด ์ด ๋ง๋จ์ ํ์ํ ์ ์ ํ ์๋ฐ๊ฐ์ ์์๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ด๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด์๋ค.
"The post-match media area will suffice."
"๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ํ ๋ฏธ๋์ด ๊ตฌ์ญ์ด๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถํฉ๋๋ค."
"With respect, Your Grace, the players' interview schedule is tightlyโ"
"๊ณต์ ์ ํ, ์ธ๋๋ ๋ง์์ด์ค๋ ์ ์๋ค์ ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ ์ผ์ ์ ๋งค์ฐ ๋นก๋นกํ๊ฒโ"
"Yes,"
Noah said.
"I imagine Mr. O'Connor is very tightly scheduled."
"์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ค์ฝ๋ ์จ์ ์ผ์ ์ด ์์ฃผ ๊ฝ ์ง์ฌ ์๊ฒ ์ง์."
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๋ง์ ์๋๋ค.
The woman glanced at the bouquet.
์ฌ์๋ ๊ฝ๋ค๋ฐ์ ํ๋ ๋ณด์๋ค.
Her eyes returned to his face and decided, with excellent instinct, not to understand the remark.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ ธ์์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ๋ค์ ์ดํผ๋๋, ํ๋ฅญํ ๋ณธ๋ฅ์ผ๋ก ๊ทธ ๋ง์ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ดํดํ์ง ์๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ๋ค.
He waited in a side corridor outside the media room while the stadium emptied itself by degrees.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ฅ์ด ์์ํ ๋น์์ง๋ ๋์ ๋ฏธ๋์ด๋ฃธ ๋ฐ ๋ณต๋์์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค.
The bouquet drew more attention than the title there.
๊ทธ๊ณณ์์๋ ์์๋ณด๋ค ๊ฝ๋ค๋ฐ์ด ๋ ๋ง์ ์์ ์ ๋์๋ค.
Staff looked, looked away, looked again.
์คํํ๋ค์ ์ณ๋ค๋ดค๋ค๊ฐ ๋์ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๋ค์ ์ณ๋ค๋ณด๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ณตํ๋ค.
Someone from broadcast whispered into a headset.
์ค๊ณํ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ๊ฐ ํค๋์ ์ ๋๊ณ ์์ญ์๋ค.
Sean Murphy passed at the far end with two phones to his ears and stopped so abruptly the man behind him nearly collided with his back.
๋ณต๋ ๋์์ ์ ๊ท์ ํด๋ํฐ์ ๋๊ณ ์ง๋๊ฐ๋ ์ ๋จธํผ๊ฐ ๋๋ฌด ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ๋ฉ์ถฐ ์๋ ๋ฐ๋์, ๋ค๋ฐ๋ผ์ค๋ ๋จ์๊ฐ ๊ทธ์ ๋ฑ์ ๋ถ๋ชํ ๋ปํ๋ค.
Noah inclined his head.
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๊น๋ฑํ๋ฉฐ ์ธ์ฌํ๋ค.
Sean's face did several things in sequence: recognition, disbelief, terror, calculation, and a specific Irish fury made sharper by professional inconvenience.
์์ ์ผ๊ตด์๋ ๊ฒฝ์ , ๋ถ์ , ๊ณตํฌ, ๊ณ์ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ง์ ์ ์ธ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์์ด ๋ํด์ง ์์ผ๋๋์ธ ํน์ ์ ๋ถ๋ ธ๊ฐ ์ฐจ๋ก๋ก ์ค์ณ ์ง๋๊ฐ๋ค.
He lowered one phone.
"No."
๊ทธ๋ ํด๋ํฐ ํ๋๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ ธ๋ค.
"์ ๋ผ."
"I have missed your decisiveness,"
Noah said.
"๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๋จ๋ ฅ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ ์ด."
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
"Youโ no. No, no, no, absolutely fuckin' not, you don't get to justโ Jesus Mary and Joseph, do you have any ideaโ"
"๋น์ โ ์๋. ์ ๋ผ, ์ ๋ผ, ์ ๋ ์ ๋ผ. ์จ๋ฐ, ๋น์ ์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ทธ๋ฅโ ๋ง์์ฌ, ์ง๊ธ ์ด๊ฒ ๋ฌด์จ ์ํฉ์ธ์ง ์๊ธฐ๋ ํด?"
"A fair amount."
"์ด๋ ์ ๋๋."
"Not enough, apparently, because you're standin' here with a funeral arrangement and that face like you haven't been dead for five fuckin' years."
"์ ํ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ฐ. ์ง๋ 5๋ ๋์ ์ฃฝ์ด ์ง๋ด๋ ์ธ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ๋ํ๋์, ๊ทธ ๋ฉด์์ ์ฅ๋ก์ ํํ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฑธ ๋ค๊ณ ์ฌ๊ธฐ ์ ์๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง์ด ๋๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํด?"
Noah let that stand. Sean was sweating already.
๋ ธ์๋ ๋๊พธํ์ง ์์๋ค. ์์ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋์ ํ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
He always had. It lent him sincerity.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋๋ฐฉ์ธ์ด ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ์ง์ค์ฑ์ ๋ถ์ฌํ๊ณค ํ๋ค.
"Is he inside?"
"์์ ์๋?"
Sean stared at him as if the question had come with a blade presented handle-first.
์์ ๋ง์น ์นผ์๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ฐ๋ฉฐ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ฌ๋์ฒ๋ผ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋นคํ ์ณ๋ค๋ณด์๋ค.
"You think I'm tellin' you that?"
"๋ด๊ฐ ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ๋งํด์ค ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์?"
"No,"
Noah said.
"I think the shouting will tell me soon enough."
"์๋. ๊ณง ๋ค๋ ค์ฌ ๊ณ ํจ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์๋ ค์ฃผ๊ฒ ์ง."
The first reporter laughed inside the room at something not funny.
๋ฐฉ ์์์ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ๊ธฐ์๊ฐ ์ ํ ์๊ธฐ์ง ์์ ๋๋ด์ ์์์ ํฐ๋จ๋ ธ๋ค.
A camera rig shifted.
์นด๋ฉ๋ผ ์ฅ๋น๊ฐ ์์ง์ด๋ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค.
The smell was carpet, cables warmed by use, coffee abandoned too long in paper cups, and under it the stadium's human remains: damp coats, grass, sweat carried in on players' bodies.
์นดํซ ๋์, ์ด๊ธฐ ๋ค ์ผ์ด๋ธ, ์ข ์ด์ปต์ ๋ฐฉ์น๋ ์ปคํผ ํฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ ์๋๋ก ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ฅ์ ์ํด๋ค์ด ๋๊ปด์ก๋ค. ์ ์ ์ฝํธ, ์๋, ์ ์๋ค์ ๋ชธ์ ๋ฐด ๋ ๋์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒ๋ค.
Noah heard Callan before he saw him.
๋ ธ์๋ ์บ๋ฐ์ ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋ ์ ์ ๊ทธ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋จผ์ ๋ค์๋ค.
A rough answer to some question, irritated already.
์ด๋ฏธ ์ง์ฆ์ด ์๋ฉ ๋ฌป์ด๋ ๊ฑฐ์น ๋๋ต์ด์๋ค.
"โscored two, didn't I? What d'you want, a fuckin' sonnet?"
"โ๋ ๊ณจ์ด๋ ๋ฃ์์์? ๋ญ ๋ ๋ฐ๋, ์จ๋ฐ, ์๋คํธ๋ผ๋ ์์ด์ค?"
Sean closed his eyes briefly, as if speaking to a private deity who had long ago stopped taking his calls.
์์ ์ค๋์ ์์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋๋ฅผ ์ธ๋ฉดํ ์ ์๊ฒ ๋ง์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฑธ๋ฏ ์ ์ ๋์ ๊ฐ์๋ค.
"I swear to God, if you cause him to hit you on cameraโ"
"๋งน์ธ์ปจ๋, ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ ์์์ ์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋น์ ์ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค๋ฉดโ"
"I shall try to turn appropriately."
"์ ๋นํ ์ ๋์๊ฐ๋ฉฐ ๋ง์๋ณด์ง."
Sean opened his eyes.
"That's not funny."
์์ด ๋์ ๋ด๋ค.
"๋๋ด ์๋."
"No."
"์์."
For the first time the word carried a little weight.
์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ๊ทธ ๋ง์ ๋ฌด๊ฒ๊ฐ ์ค๋ ธ๋ค.
Sean heard it and hated that he had heard it.
์์ ๊ทธ ๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ฅผ ๋๊ผ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ์์์ฐจ๋ ธ๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ ์ง์ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ณค๋ค.
He looked older than Noah remembered, not by much, but enough in the softening under the eyes.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ ธ์์ ๊ธฐ์ต๋ณด๋ค ๋์ด ์์๋ค. ์์ฃผ ๋ง์ด๋ ์๋์์ง๋ง, ๋๊ฐ์ ์ฃผ๋ฆ์ด ๊น์ด์ง๊ธฐ์ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์๊ฐ์ด์๋ค.
Everyone around Callan had aged in service to the same impossible weather.
์บ๋ฐ ์ฃผ๋ณ์ ๋ชจ๋ ์ด๋ค์ ๊ทธ ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๋ณ๋์ ๊ฒฌ๋๋ด๋๋ผ ํจ๊ป ๋์ด๊ฐ๋ค.
Sean glanced once toward the room, then at the bouquet, then at Noah's left hand, bare of any ring but the signet.
์์ ๋ฐฉ ์์ ํ ๋ฒ ๋ณด๋๋ ๊ฝ๋ค๋ฐ์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ธ์ฅ ๋ฐ์ง ์ธ์๋ ์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ๋ผ์ง ์์ ๋ ธ์์ ์ผ์์ ๋ฒ๊ฐ์ ๋ณด์๋ค.
"He kept it,"
he said, low enough that the nearby staff could pretend not to hear.
"๊ทธ ๋ ์, ์์ง ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ด."
์ฃผ๋ณ ์คํํ๋ค์ด ๋ชป ๋ค์ ์ฒํ ์ ์์ ๋งํผ ๋ฎ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ์๋ค.
"I saw."
"๋ดค์ด."
"Don't make that worse for him."
"๊ทธ ๋ ์ ๋ ํ๋ค๊ฒ ํ์ง ๋ง."
Noah's gaze moved to the open door.
๋ ธ์์ ์์ ์ด ์ด๋ฆฐ ๋ฌธ์ผ๋ก ํฅํ๋ค.
Callan's voice again, impatient, the accent thicker after ninety minutes and adrenaline.
90๋ถ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ ์๋๋ ๋ ๋ฆฐ ํ์ ํ์ธต ๋ ๊ฑฐ์น ์ด์ง ์บ๋ฐ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ค์ ๋ค๋ ค์๋ค.
"Then ask the gaffer about shape, mate. I put the ball in the net. That's my fuckin' shape."
"๊ทธ๋ผ ์ ์ ์ ๋ํด์ ๊ฐ๋ ๋ํํ ๋ฌผ์ด๋ด. ๋ ๊ณจ์ ๋ฃ์์ ๋ฟ์ด๊ณ , ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ด ์จ๋ฐ๋์ ์ ์ ์ด๋๊น."
Sean made a small, defeated sound.
"You're a sick man."
์์ด ํจ๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ ํ ๋ฏ ์์ ์ ์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋๋ค.
"๋น์ ๋ ์ฐธ ๋ณ์ด์ผ."
"I have been told."
"์์ฃผ ๋ฃ๋ ์๋ฆฌ์ง."
"Not enough."
"์์ง ๋ถ์กฑํด."
Noah stepped past him before Sean could decide whether physical restraint was worth unemployment.
์์ด ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์ ์ง๊ฐ ์ค์ง์ ์ํ์ ๊ฐ์ํ ๊ฐ์น๊ฐ ์๋์ง ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๊ธฐ๋ ์ ์, ๋ ธ์๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ง๋์ณ ๊ฑธ์ด๊ฐ๋ค.
The media room was too bright.
๋ฏธ๋์ด๋ฃธ ์์ ์ง๋์น๊ฒ ๋ฐ์๋ค.
White panels, sponsor boards, cameras in a row, microphones clustered before the table like a little metal garden.
ํฐ์ ํจ๋, ์คํฐ์ ๋ณด๋, ์ผ๋ ฌ๋ก ๋์ด์ ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ๋ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ ์ด๋ธ ์์ ๊ธ์ ์ ์์ฒ๋ผ ๋ชจ์ฌ ์๋ ๋ง์ดํฌ๋ค.
Callan sat in the centre chair still in match kit, hair wet from a rough shower or only from sweat, towel looped and forgotten around his neck.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์ ๋ํผ ์ฐจ๋ฆผ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ์ค์ ์์์ ์์ ์์๋ค. ๋์ถฉ ์ป์๋์ง ๋์ธ์ง ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ๋ฌผ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ฝ, ๋ชฉ์ ๋์ถฉ ๊ฑธ์ณ์ง ์๊ฑด.
His shoulders filled the shirt differently now; the boy's hungry frame had become a man's instrument, muscle laid on through years of use and money and will.
์ ๋ํผ์ ์ฑ์ด ์ด๊นจ๋ ์์ ๊ณผ ๋ฌ๋๋ค. ์๋ ์ ๊ตถ์ฃผ๋ฆฐ ๊ณจ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ์๊ณผ ๋, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ง๋ก ๋จ๋ จ๋ ๋จ์์ ๋ณ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์ด ์์๋ค.
One knee was spread wide under the table, heel planted, posture insolent with fatigue.
ํ ์ด๋ธ ์๋๋ก ํ์ชฝ ๋ฌด๋ฆ์ ๋๊ฒ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฐ๊ฟ์น๋ฅผ ๋ถ์ธ ์์ธ๋ ํผ๋ก๊ฐ ์์ธ ์ค๋งํจ์ ํ๊ฒผ๋ค.
There was a cut at the corner of one eyebrow, not serious.
๋์น ๋์๋ ์ฌํ์ง ์์ ์์ฒ๊ฐ ๋ ์์๋ค.
His eyes were on a journalist to the left when Noah entered.
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๋ค์ด์ฐ์ ๋, ๊ทธ์ ์์ ์ ์ผ์ชฝ์ ๊ธฐ์์๊ฒ ๊ณ ์ ๋์ด ์์๋ค.
The bouquet arrived first.
๊ฝ๋ค๋ฐ์ด ๋จผ์ ๋์ฐฉํ๋ค.
The smell crossed the room before sense did.
์ด์ฑ์ด ์ํฉ์ ํ๋จํ๊ธฐ๋ ์ ์ ๊ฝํฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ฐฉ ์์ ๊ฐ๋ก์ง๋ ๋ค.
Peonies, pink roses, baby's breath, overblown and unmistakable.
ํ๋๋ฌ์ง๊ฒ ํ ์์ฝ, ๋ถํ ์ฅ๋ฏธ, ์๊ฐ๊ฝ์ ํฅ๊ธฐ๋ ์จ๊ธธ ์ ์์ ๋งํผ ๊ฐ๋ ฌํ๋ค.
Callan stopped mid-answer. Not paused. Stopped, as though somebody had put a hand at the back of his neck from behind.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๋๋ตํ๋ ๋์ค ๋ฉ์ท๋ค. ์ ์ ๋ฉ์ถ ๊ฒ ์๋๋ผ, ๋ง์น ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ ๋ค์์ ๋ชฉ๋๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์์ผ์ฅ ๋ฏ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ๊ตณ์ด๋ฒ๋ ธ๋ค.
The room did not understand immediately. That was its last innocent second.
์ฅ๋ด ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ฆ์ ์ํฉ์ ํ์ ํ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ๊ทธ๋ค์๊ฒ ํ๋ฝ๋ ๋ง์ง๋ง ํ์จ์ ์๊ฐ์ด์๋ค.
Noah walked down the side aisle with the flowers in one arm and the suitcase nowhere now; it had been left with the liaison, who would guard it better than she had guarded the room.
๋ ธ์๋ ํ ํ์ ๊ฝ๋ค๋ฐ์ ์๊ณ ์ธก๋ฉด ํต๋ก๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๊ฑธ์ด ๋ด๋ ค๊ฐ๋ค. ์ฌํ ๊ฐ๋ฐฉ์ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ฐ๋ฝ๊ด์๊ฒ ๋งก๊ธด ๋ค์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ด ๋ฐฉ์ ์ง์ผฐ๋ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ํจ์ฌ ๋ ์ฒ ์ ํ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ฐฉ์ ์งํฌ ํฐ์๋ค.
He did not hurry.
๊ทธ๋ ์๋๋ฅด์ง ์์๋ค.
Cameras began to turn because cameras had their own animal intelligence.
์นด๋ฉ๋ผ๋ค์ด ๋์๊ฐ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค. ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ๋ ๊ทธ ์์ฒด๋ก ์ง์น ๊ฐ์ ์ง๋ฅ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์์ผ๋๊น.
Sean appeared in the doorway behind him, pale and furious, and did not speak.
๋คํธ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ์ ๋ํ๋ ์์ ์์์ด ํ๋ฆฌํด์ง ์ฑ ๋ถ๋ ธ๋ฅผ ์ต๋๋ฅด๋ฉฐ ์๋ฌด ๋ง๋ ํ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค.
Callan's gaze found him.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์์ ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์๋๋ค.
Five years struck the room without sound.
5๋ ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ธ์์ด ์๋ฆฌ ์์ด ๋ฐฉ ์์ ๊ฐํํ๋ค.
The man at the table did not move at first, which was more dangerous than if he had stood.
ํ ์ด๋ธ์ ์์ ์๋ ๋จ์๋ ์ฒ์์ ์์ง์ด์ง ์์๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋ฒ๋ก ์ผ์ด๋๋ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ํจ์ฌ ๋ ์ํํด ๋ณด์๋ค.
His face emptied in one sweep.
๊ทธ์ ์ผ๊ตด์์ ์์๊ฐ์ ๋ชจ๋ ํ์ ์ด ์ฌ๋ผ์ก๋ค.
The media training, the arrogance, the match irritation, the little public sneerโgone.
๋ฏธ๋์ด ํธ๋ ์ด๋์ ํ์ , ๊ฑฐ๋งํจ, ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ ํฅ๋ถ, ๋์ค์ ํฅํ ๋น์์๊น์ง ์ ๋ถ ์ฌ๋ผ์ก๋ค.
What remained under it was not boyish and not broken.
๊ทธ ์๋ ๋จ์ ๊ฒ์ ์๋ ๋ค์๋, ๋ฌด๋์ง ์ํด ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒ๋ ์๋์๋ค.
It was the look of a man seeing a dead person come in holding the exact flowers from the grave.
๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๋ง์น ์ฃฝ์ ์ฌ๋์ด ๋ฌด๋ค ์์ ๋์๋ ๊ฝ๋ค๋ฐ์ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ๋ค๊ณ ๋ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ ๋จ์์ ์ผ๊ตด์ด์๋ค.
Noah stopped before the table.
๋ ธ์๋ ํ ์ด๋ธ ์์์ ๋ฉ์ถฐ ์ฐ๋ค.
Close enough that Callan would smell the bouquet and, beneath it, sandalwood, train air, wool, the cold mineral cleanliness of new authority.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๊ฝํฅ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งก์ ์ ์์ ๋งํผ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ ์๋ ๊น๋ฆฐ ์๋ค์ฐ๋ ํฅ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ฐจ์ ๊ณต๊ธฐ, ์ธ ์ฝํธ ๋์, ์๋ก์ด ๊ถ๋ ฅ์ด ๋ฟ์ด๋ด๋ ์ฐจ๊ฐ์ด ๊ธ์์ฑ ์ฒญ๊ฒฐํจ์ ๋๋ ์ ์์ ๋งํผ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์๋ค.
Close enough to see the cord at Callan's throat where the towel had shifted.
์๊ฑด์ด ๋น๊ปด๊ฐ ์บ๋ฐ์ ๋ชฉ์ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ ์ค์ด ๋ณด์ผ ์ ๋๋ก ๊ฐ๊น์ ๋ค.
The black line vanished under the red shirt.
๊ฒ์ ์ค์ ๋ถ์ ์ ๋ํผ ์๋๋ก ์ฌ๋ผ์ ธ ์์๋ค.
"Good afternoon,"
Noah said.
"์๋ ."
A microphone caught it.
๋ง์ดํฌ๊ฐ ๊ทธ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ก์๋๋ค.
Callan stood so fast the chair went over backward.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋๋ฌด๋ ๊ธํ๊ฒ ์ผ์ด๋๋ ๋ฐ๋์ ์์๊ฐ ๋ค๋ก ๋์ด๊ฐ๋ค.
The crash startled half the room into noise.
๊ทธ ์๋ํ ์๋ฆฌ์ ์ฅ๋ด ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์์ค๋ผ์น๊ฒ ๋๋๋ค.
He came around the table with the old violent economy, one hand shoving a camera aside hard enough for the operator to swear.
๊ทธ๋ ์์ ๊ทธ ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ณ ๋ ํจ์จ์ ์ธ ์์ง์์ผ๋ก ํ ์ด๋ธ์ ๋์ ๋์๋ค. ๋ฐฉํด๋๋ ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ณ๋ด๋ ๋ฐ๋์ ์ดฌ์ ๊ธฐ์ฌ๊ฐ ์์ค์ ๋ด๋ฑ์ ์ ๋์๋ค.
Sean moved, too late or not truly intending to stop him.
์์ด ์์ง์์ง๋ง, ๋๋ฌด ๋ฆ์๊ฑฐ๋ ํน์ ์ง์ฌ์ผ๋ก ๋ง์ ์๊ฐ์ด ์์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ค.
Noah did not step back.
๋ ธ์๋ ๋ฌผ๋ฌ์์ง ์์๋ค.
The bouquet was crushed between them as Callan grabbed the front of his coat in both fists and drove him into the sponsor board with a flat, ugly thud that made the printed logos shiver.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋ ธ์์ ์ฝํธ ์์ถ์ ์์์ผ๋ก ์์ผ์ฅ๊ณ ์คํฐ์ ๋ณด๋ ์ชฝ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ์ด๋ถ์ด๋ ์๊ฐ, ๊ฝ๋ค๋ฐ์ด ๋ ์ฌ๋ ์ฌ์ด์์ ์ง๋๋ ธ๋ค. ๋ํํ๊ณ ๋ถ์พํ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ๋ก๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ฐํ ๋ณด๋๊ฐ ํ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค.
Petals fell. White baby's breath broke loose and scattered across the carpet.
๊ฝ์์ด ๋จ์ด์ก๋ค. ํ์ ์๊ฐ๊ฝ์ก์ด๋ค์ด ๋จ์ด์ ธ ๋์ ์นดํซ ์๋ก ํฉ์ด์ก๋ค.
Callan's face was inches from his.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๊ตด์ด ์ฝ์๊น์ง ๋ค๊ฐ์๋ค.
Breath hot with match exhaustion and fury.
"Where the fuck were you."
๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ ํผ๋ก์ ๋ถ๋ ธ๊ฐ ์์ธ ๋จ๊ฑฐ์ด ์จ๊ฒฐ์ด ๋๊ปด์ก๋ค.
"์จ๋ฐ, ์ฌํ ์ด๋ ์ฒ๋ฐํ ์์์ด."
There were many answers.
๋๋ตํ ๋ง์ ๋ง์๋ค.
Prison. Court. His father's private machinery.
๊ฐ์ฅ, ๋ฒ์ , ์๋ฒ์ง์ ์ฌ์ ์ธ ๊ณต์๋ค.
Five years of obstruction laid stone by stone between them.
๊ทธ๋ค ์ฌ์ด์ ๋ ํ๋ํ๋๋ฅผ ์์ ์ฌ๋ฆฐ 5๋ ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐฉํด ๊ณต์๋ค.
Money moved under false names. Letters intercepted. Calls killed before ringing.
๊ฐ๋ช ์ผ๋ก ์์ง์ธ ์๊ธ๋ค, ๊ฐ๋ก์ฑ์ง ํธ์ง๋ค, ์ธ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋ ์ ์ ๋๊ธด ์ ํ๋ค.
The old duke's hands, very clean, very steady.
์์ฃผ ๊นจ๋ํ๊ณ ํ๋ค๋ฆผ ์๋ ๋ ธ๊ณต์์ ์๊ธธ๊น์ง.
None of it belonged in the first answer.
ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ ์ด๋ค ๊ฒ๋ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ๋๋ต์ด ๋ ์๋ ์์๋ค.
Explanation offered too early would sound like escape.
๋๋ฌด ์ด๋ฅธ ์ค๋ช ์ ๋ณ๋ช ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ค๋ฆด ๋ฟ์ด๋๊น.
Noah looked at him.
๋ ธ์๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์๋ค.
The cut at Callan's eyebrow had bled a little again with the rush of blood to his face.
์ผ๊ตด๋ก ํผ๊ฐ ๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์ ์บ๋ฐ์ ๋์น ๋ ์์ฒ์์ ๋ค์ ํผ๊ฐ ์กฐ๊ธ์ฉ ๋ฐฐ์ด ๋์๋ค.
His pupils were wide, not with fear alone.
๊ทธ์ ๋๊ณต์ ๋จ์ํ ๊ณตํฌ ๋๋ฌธ๋ง์ด ์๋๋ผ ํฌ๊ฒ ํ์ฅ๋์ด ์์๋ค.
The cord at his throat was visible now, pulled taut by the angle of his body; beneath the fabric the hidden ring made a small hard rise against his sternum.
๋ชธ์ ๊ฐ๋ ๋๋ฌธ์ ํฝํฝํ๊ฒ ๋น๊ฒจ์ง ๋ชฉ์ ์ค์ด ์ ๋ช ํ๊ฒ ๋ณด์๋ค. ์ท๊ฐ ์๋๋ก ์จ๊ฒจ์ง ๋ฐ์ง๊ฐ ๊ทธ์ ํ๊ณจ ์์์ ์๊ณ ๋ฑ๋ฑํ ๊ตด๊ณก์ ๋ง๋ค๊ณ ์์๋ค.
"I was prevented,"
Noah said.
"๋ฐฉํด๋ฅผ ์ข ๋ฐ์์ด."
Callan hit him.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋๋ ธ๋ค.
Not a theatrical slap.
์ฐ๊ทน ๊ฐ์ ๋บจ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์๋์๋ค.
A closed fist, right side of Noah's face, hard enough to turn his head and split the inside of his cheek against a molar.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์ฃผ๋จน์ ๊ฝ ์ฅ๊ณ ๋ ธ์์ ์ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ ์ผ๊ตด์ ์ ๋๋ก ๊ฐ๊ฒฉํ๋ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋์๊ฐ๊ณ ์ด๊ธ๋์ ๋ถ๋ชํ ๋ณผ ์์ชฝ์ด ํฐ์ง ์ ๋์ ๊ฐ๋์๋ค.
The room erupted. Someone shouted Callan's name.
์ฅ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ฐ์นต ๋ค์งํ๋ค. ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ ์บ๋ฐ์ ์ด๋ฆ์ ์ธ์ณค๋ค.
Sean said something obscene and strangled.
์์ ์ ์ ๋ด์ง ๋ชปํ ์์ค์ ๋ด๋ฑ์๋ค.
Security entered and stopped because the Duke of Lennox, bleeding at the mouth beside a ruined bouquet and a world-famous striker in his fists, lifted one hand without looking at them.
๋ณด์ ์์๋ค์ด ๋ค์ด๋ฅ์ณค์ง๋ง, ์ ๊ฐ์ ํผ๋ฅผ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๋ง๊ฐ์ง ๊ฝ๋ค๋ฐ ์์ ์ ์๋ ๋ ๋ น์ค ๊ณต์์ด ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ณ๋ค๋ณด์ง๋ ์์ ์ฑ ํ ์์ ๋ค์ด ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฉ์ถฐ ์ฐ๋ค. ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ธ ์คํธ๋ผ์ด์ปค์ ์์ ๋ฉฑ์ด์ด ์กํ ์ฑ๋ก ๋ง์ด๋ค.
Noah touched his tongue to the cut. Blood and metal.
๋ ธ์๋ ํ๋ก ์์ฒ๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋๋ ธ๋ค. ๋น๋ฆฟํ ํผ ๋์์ ๊ธ์ ๋ง์ด ๋ฌ๋ค.
The click of the piercing was very soft.
ํผ์ด์ฑ์ด ๋ฌ์นต์ด๋ ์์ฃผ ์์ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค.
Callan heard it.
์บ๋ฐ๋ ๊ทธ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ค์๋ค.
The effect was minute and absolute.
๊ทธ ํจ๊ณผ๋ ๋ฏธ๋ฏธํ์ง๋ง ์ ๋์ ์ด์๋ค.
His grip did not loosen, but something moved through him, recognition entering the body faster than rage could bar the door.
๊ทธ์ ์์๊ท์ ํ์ด ํ๋ฆฌ์ง๋ ์์์ผ๋, ๋ถ๋ ธ๊ฐ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฑธ์ด ์ ๊ทธ๊ธฐ ์ ์ ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐโ์ด๋ค ๊นจ๋ฌ์์ด ๊ทธ์ ๋ชธ์์ ํ๊ณ ๋ค์๋ค.
Noah turned his face back.
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ค์ ๋๋ ธ๋ค.
The cheek had already reddened; it would bruise beautifully.
๋บจ์ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ถ๊ฒ ๋ถ์ด์ฌ๋ผ ์์๊ณ , ๋จธ์ง์์ ์์ฃผ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ข๊ฒ ๋ฉ์ด ๋ค ํฐ์๋ค.
He smiled then, not broadly, not safely, and offered the unmarked side by the smallest inclination of his head.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ์ง์๋ค. ํํ๊ฒ๋, ์๋ํ๋ ๊ธฐ์๋ ์๋์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์์ฃผ ์ด์ง ๊ธฐ์ธ์ฌ ์์ฒ ๋์ง ์์ ์ชฝ ๋บจ์ ๋ด๋ฐ์๋ค.
"Balance is important, darling."
"๊ท ํ์ด ์ค์ํ์์, ๋ฌ๋ง."
For one second Callan looked as if he might kill him.
์ฐฐ๋์ ์๊ฐ, ์บ๋ฐ์ ์ ๋ง๋ก ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ฃฝ์ฌ๋ฒ๋ฆด ๋ฏํ ํ์ ์ ์ง์๋ค.
Then his hand left Noah's coat and went to his own chest.
์ด์ฝ๊ณ ๊ทธ์ ์์ด ๋ ธ์์ ์ฝํธ๋ฅผ ๋๊ณ ์์ ์ ๊ฐ์ดํ์ผ๋ก ํฅํ๋ค.
Not gently. He grabbed the cord through the shirt and yanked.
๊ฒฐ์ฝ ๋ถ๋๋ฌ์ด ์๊ธธ์ด ์๋์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋ํผ ์๋ก ์ค์ ์์ผ์ฅ๊ณ ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ฒ ์ก์๋น๊ฒผ๋ค.
The ring came free over the collar, dark stone flashing once under the brutal media lights.
์นผ๋ผ ์๋ก ๋ฐ์ง๊ฐ ํ์ด๋์๋ค. ์ํนํ ๋ฏธ๋์ด ์กฐ๋ช ์๋์์ ์ง์ ์ ๋ณด์์ด ํ ๋ฒ ๋ฒ๋ฉ์๋ค.
It swung between them like a verdict no one in the room had been qualified to hear.
๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๊ทธ ๋ฐฉ ์์ ๋๊ตฌ๋ ๋ค์ ์๊ฒฉ์ด ์๋ ํ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ ์ฌ๋ ์ฌ์ด์์ ํ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค.
Callan's fist closed around it.
"Five years,"
he said. His voice was lower now, worse.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์ฃผ๋จน์ด ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ๊ฝ ์์ผ์ฅ์๋ค.
"5๋ ์ด์ผ."
๊ทธ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฎ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ผ์์ ์์๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ ์ฒ์ฐธํ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค.
"Five fuckin' years, and you walk in with flowers."
"์จ๋ฐ, ๊ผฌ๋ฐ 5๋ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ . ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ ๊ฝ์ด๋ ๋ค๊ณ ๋ํ๋?"
Noah did not look at the cameras.
๋ ธ์๋ ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ง ์์๋ค.
He looked at the ring in Callan's fist, then at the mark the cord had left reddened across his throat.
๊ทธ๋ ์บ๋ฐ์ ์ฃผ๋จน์ ์ฅ ๋ฐ์ง์, ์ค ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋ถ๊ฒ ์๊ตญ์ด ๋จ์ ๊ทธ์ ๋ชฉ๋๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์์ํ๋ค.
"Yes."
"๊ทธ๋."
Callan gave a laugh that had no humour in it.
"That all you've got?"
์บ๋ฐ์ด ์ ํ ์ฆ๊ฒ์ง ์์ ์์์ ํฐ๋จ๋ ธ๋ค.
"๊ฐ์ง ๊ฒ ๊ณ ์ ์ด๊ฑฐ๋ฟ์ด์ผ?"
"No."
Noah's bleeding mouth made the word imperfect.
"์๋."
ํฐ์ง ์ ์ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋ฐ์์ด ์กฐ๊ธ ์์ง๋ง, ๋ ธ์๋ ํผ๋ฅผ ๋ฆ์๋ด์ง ์์๋ค.
He did not wipe it away.
"But it is what I brought first."
"ํ์ง๋ง ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋จผ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ ๊ฑฐ์ผ."
Petals crushed under Callan's boot as he shifted closer again.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ํ ๊ฑธ์ ๋ ๋ค๊ฐ์์ ๊ทธ์ ์ถ๊ตฌํ ์๋์์ ๊ฝ์๋ค์ด ์ง์ด๊ฒจ์ก๋ค.
The whole room held itself in a trembling imitation of professionalism.
์ฅ๋ด์ ๋ชจ๋ ์ด๋ค์ ๋จ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ธด์ฅ๊ฐ ์์์ ํ๋ก๋ค์ด ํ๋๋ฅผ ์ ์งํ๋ ค ์ ์ผ๋ค.
No one wanted to stop history while it was still making itself.
์ญ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ง๋ ์๊ฐ์ ๋๊ตฌ๋ ๋ฐฉํดํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด ํ์ง ์์๋ค.
No one wanted responsibility for allowing it either.
๋์์ ๊ทธ ์ํฉ์ ๋ฐฉ์นํ ์ฑ ์์ ์ง๊ณ ์ถ์ด ํ์ง๋ ์์๋ค.
"You dead?"
Callan asked.
"์ฃฝ์์๋?"
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋ฌผ์๋ค.
The question came out rawer than the rest, almost hidden under contempt.
"That what it was? You fuckin' dead?"
๊ฒฝ๋ฉธ ์์ ๊ฐ๋ ค์ ธ ์์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ ์ด๋ค ๋ง๋ณด๋ค๋ ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ทธ๋๋ก์ ์ง์ฌ์ด ๋ด๊ธด ์ง๋ฌธ์ด์๋ค.
"๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๊ฑฐ์ผ? ์จ๋ฐ, ์ฃฝ์ด ์์๋๊ณ ."
"For all useful purposes,"
Noah said.
"์ค์ง์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ง."
Callan's jaw worked once.
์บ๋ฐ์ ํฑ ๊ทผ์ก์ด ํ ๋ฒ ๊ฟํํ๋ค.
His grip on the ring tightened until the cord cut into the side of his hand.
๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ์ฅ ์์ ํ์ ์ฃผ์ ์ค์ด ์๋ ์ ํ๊ณ ๋ค์๋ค.
The fury did not leave him; it altered shape, acquiring somewhere to go and not forgiving the person who had provided it.
๋ถ๋ ธ๋ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง์ง ์์๋ค. ๊ทธ์ ํํ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊พธ์ด ๊ฐ ๊ณณ์ ์ฐพ์์ ๋ฟ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๋ถ๋ ธ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ ์๋๋ฅผ ์ฉ์ํ ์๊ฐ ๋ฐ์๋ ์ถํธ๋ ์์๋ค.
"I looked."
"์ฐพ์๋ดค์ด."
"I know."
"์์."
"You don't know shit."
"๋น์ ์ด ๋ญ ์์, ์จ๋ฐ."
"I know you went to London,"
Noah said quietly.
"I know you went to France. I know my father enjoyed closing doors after you had already reached them."
"๋ค๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋์ ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฑฐ ์์."
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๋์งํ๊ฒ ๋งํ๋ค.
"ํ๋์ค์๋ ๊ฐ์์ง. ๋ค๊ฐ ๋์ฐฉํ ๋๋ง๋ค ์๋ฒ์ง๊ฐ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ซ์๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฑธ ์์ฃผ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ํ์ จ๊ฑฐ๋ ."
Callan went still again.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋ค์ ๊ตณ์ด๋ฒ๋ ธ๋ค.
There. Not reconciliation. Not softness.
ํํด๋ ๋ถ๋๋ฌ์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฑด ์์๋ค.
A new object placed in the room with all the force of furniture dropped from a height.
๋์ ๋์ ๊ณณ์์ ๋จ์ด์ง ๊ฐ๊ตฌ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ฌต์งํ ์ง์ค์ด ๊ทธ๋ค ์ฌ์ด์ ๋์๋ค.
The old duke, absent and defeated, entered between them at last.
๋ถ์ฌ์ค์ด์๊ณ ํจ๋ฐฐํ๋ ๋ ธ๊ณต์์ด ๋ง์นจ๋ด ๋ ์ฌ๋ ์ฌ์ด์ ๋ผ์ด๋ค์๋ค.
Sean swore under his breath in the doorway.
๋ฌธ๊ฐ์ ์ ์๋ ์์ด ๋์ง์ด ์์ค์ ๋ฑ์๋ค.
The reporters had stopped pretending to type.
๊ธฐ์๋ค์ ํ์ดํํ๋ ์ฒํ๋ ๊ฒ์กฐ์ฐจ ๋ฉ์ท๋ค.
Callan's eyes searched Noah's face as if looking for the lie and finding, instead, the more offensive truth that Noah had chosen this place to give it to him.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๋ ธ์์ ์ผ๊ตด์์ ๊ฑฐ์ง์ ์ฐพ์ผ๋ ค ์ ์ผ๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ ๊ฒ์, ๋ ธ์๊ฐ ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ์ง์ค์ ๋งํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๊ตณ์ด ์ด ์ฅ์๋ฅผ ํํ๋ค๋ ๋ชจ์์ ์ธ ์ฌ์ค๋ฟ์ด์๋ค.
Publicly. With flowers.
๊ณต๊ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก, ๊ฝ๋ค๋ฐ์ ๋ค๊ณ .
While cameras recorded the raw line of his throat and the ring in his fist and the bruise rising on Noah's cheek like payment made insufficiently late.
์นด๋ฉ๋ผ๊ฐ ์์ ์ ๋ชฉ์ ๊ณผ ์ฃผ๋จน์ ์ฅ ๋ฐ์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋๋ฌด ๋ฆ๊ฒ ์ง๋ถํ ๋๊ฐ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ ธ์์ ๋บจ์ ์ฌ๋ผ์จ ๋ฉ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ๋ ์ด ์๋ฆฌ์์ ๋ง์ด๋ค.
Noah lowered the ruined bouquet onto the interview table.
๋ ธ์๋ ๋ง๊ฐ์ง ๊ฝ๋ค๋ฐ์ ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ ํ ์ด๋ธ ์์ ๋ด๋ ค๋์๋ค.
Half the peonies had been crushed against his coat; one pink bloom hung broken by its stem.
์์ฝ์ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ทธ์ ์ฝํธ์ ๋๋ ค ์ง์ด๊ฒจ์ก๊ณ , ๋ถํ์ ๊ฝ์ก์ด ํ๋๋ ์ค๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๊บพ์ธ ์ฑ ๋๋กฑ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ค.
"I have rather a lot to explain,"
he said, and then, because he could not leave the knife unstroked,
"but you may decide whether to break my nose first."
"์ค๋ช ํ ๊ฒ ๊ฝค ๋ง์."
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๋งํ๋๋, ์์ฒ๋ฅผ ํ๋ฒผ ํ์ง ์๊ณ ๋ ๋ชป ๋ฐฐ๊ธฐ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ๋ฏ ๋ง๋ถ์๋ค.
"ํ์ง๋ง ๋ด ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฅผ ๋จผ์ ๋ถ๋ฌ๋จ๋ฆด์ง ๋ง์ง๋ ๋ค๊ฐ ๊ฒฐ์ ํด."
Callan's breathing filled the space between them.
๋ ์ฌ๋ ์ฌ์ด์ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ด ์บ๋ฐ์ ๊ฑฐ์น ์จ์๋ฆฌ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐผ๋ค.
He looked down at the flowers on the table, then at Noah's mouth where blood had darkened at one corner, then at the ring caught in his own hand.
๊ทธ๋ ํ ์ด๋ธ ์์ ๊ฝ์ ๋ณด์๋ค๊ฐ, ํผ๊ฐ ๊ตณ์ด๊ฐ๋ ๋ ธ์์ ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์๊ณ , ์์ ์ ์์ ์ฅ ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ณด์๋ค.
The cameras were still on.
์นด๋ฉ๋ผ๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋์๊ฐ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
The stadium beyond the walls was emptying into evening.
๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ฅ ๋ฐ์ ์ ๋ ๊ณต๊ธฐ ์์ผ๋ก ํฉ์ด์ง๊ณ ์์๋ค.
His team would be waiting, or not.
๊ทธ์ ํ ๋๋ฃ๋ค์ด ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์์ง๋, ์๋์ง๋ ๋ชฐ๋๋ค.
The whole world had narrowed to the ugly carpet under his studs and the man who had returned from death with peonies.
๊ทธ์ ์ธ๊ณ๋ ์ด์ ๋ฐ๋ฐ์ ์ง์ ๋ถํ ์นดํซ๊ณผ, ์์ฝ์ ๋ค๊ณ ์ฃฝ์์์ ๋์์จ ์ด ๋จ์๋ฟ์ด์๋ค.
He stepped in close enough that Noah had to lift his chin a fraction to keep their eyes level.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ ธ์๊ฐ ์์ ์ ๋ง์ถ๊ธฐ ์ํด ํฑ์ ์ด์ง ์น์ผ๋ค์ด์ผ ํ ๋งํผ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๋ค๊ฐ์ฐ๋ค.
"If you call me darling again in front of them,"
Callan said, voice rough and quiet,
"I'll put you through that wall."
"ํ ๋ฒ๋ง ๋ ์ ์๋ผ๋ค ์์์ ๋ํํ ๋ฌ๋ง์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฌ๋ด."
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋ฎ๊ณ ๊ฑฐ์น ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ก ์ผ๋ฅด๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ค.
"๊ทธ๋ ์ง์ง ์ ๋ฒฝ์ ์ฒ๋ฐ์๋ฒ๋ฆด ํ ๋๊น."
Noah's smile faded into something smaller and more dangerous than amusement.
๋ ธ์์ ๋ฏธ์๊ฐ ์ฆ์๋ค๋ฉฐ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์๋ณด๋ค ๋ ์๊ณ ์ํํ ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ๋ก ๋ณํ๋ค.
"Very well."
"์ข์."
Callan did not let go of the ring. He did not hit him again.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ๋์ง ์์๋ค. ๋ค์ ๋๋ฆฌ์ง๋ ์์๋ค.
He turned his head toward Sean without taking his eyes off Noah and said,
"Clear the room."
๊ทธ๋ ๋ ธ์์๊ฒ์ ์์ ์ ๋ผ์ง ์์ ์ฑ ์์ ํฅํด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ ธ๋ค.
"์ฌ๋๋ค ๋ค ๋ด๋ณด๋ด."
Sean stared at him.
"Calโ"
์์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋นคํ ์ณ๋ค๋ดค๋ค.
"์บโ"
"Clear the fuckin' room."
"์จ๋ฐ, ๋ค ๋๊ฐ๋ผ๊ณ ."
This time people moved. Chairs scraped.
๊ทธ์ ์ผ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์์ง์๋ค. ์์๊ฐ ๋๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ฌ๋ค.
Cameras lowered reluctantly, hungrily.
์นด๋ฉ๋ผ๋ค์ด ์์ฌ์ด ๋ฏ, ๊ตถ์ฃผ๋ฆฐ ๋ฏ ๋ด๋ ค๊ฐ๋ค.
A journalist whispered into a phone and was silenced by a security man discovering his purpose at last.
ํ ๊ธฐ์๊ฐ ํด๋ํฐ์ ๋๊ณ ์์ญ์ด๋ค๊ฐ ๋ง์นจ๋ด ์ ์ญํ ์ ์ฐพ์ ๋ณด์ ์์์ ์ํด ์ ์ง๋นํ๋ค.
The room emptied in layers: press, broadcast crew, club staff who had seen too much and would dine out on it carefully for years.
์ทจ์ฌ์ง, ์ค๊ณํ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ์ ์ฐ๋ ค๋จน์ ์์ค๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฑ๊ธด ๊ตฌ๋จ ์คํํ๋ค์ด ์ฐจ๋ก๋ก ๋ฐฉ์ ๋น ์ ธ๋๊ฐ๋ค.
Sean remained until Callan looked at him once. Not anger. Worse. A closed door.
์์ ์บ๋ฐ์ด ์์ ์ ํ ๋ฒ ์ณ๋ค๋ณผ ๋๊น์ง ๋จ์ ์์๋ค. ๋ถ๋ ธ๊ฐ ์๋์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ณด๋ค ๋ํ ๊ฒ, ๊ตณ๊ฒ ๋ซํ ๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์ ์์ ์ด์๋ค.
Sean left last, muttering prayers and legal strategies under the same breath.
์์ ๊ธฐ๋๋ฌธ๊ณผ ๋ฒ์ ๋์ ์ ๋ต์ ๋์์ ์ค์ผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก ๋๊ฐ๋ค.
The door shut.
๋ฌธ์ด ๋ซํ๋ค.
In the smaller silence that followed, the fluorescent lights hummed.
์ด์ด์ง ์ ์ ์์์ ํ๊ด๋ฑ์ด ์ ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ค.
Noah's cheek reddened steadily.
๋ ธ์์ ๋บจ์ ์ ์ ๋ ๋ถ๊ฒ ๋ฌ์์ฌ๋๋ค.
Callan stood in his match kit with the ring cord wrapped around his fist, sweat drying cold on his neck, and did not yet release either it or him.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์ ๋ํผ ์ฐจ๋ฆผ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ์ง ์ค์ ์ฃผ๋จน์ ๊ฐ์ ์ฑ ์ ์์๋ค. ๋ชฉ๋๋ฏธ์ ๋์ ์ฐจ๊ฐ๊ฒ ์์ด๊ฐ์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋ฐ์ง์ ๋ ธ์ ์ค ๊ทธ ๋ฌด์๋ ๋์์ฃผ์ง ์์๋ค.
The crushed flowers lay between them on the table, lavish and ruined, filling the air with their green, overripe scent.
ํ ์ด๋ธ ์์๋ ์ง๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฝ๋ค์ด ์ฌ์น์ค๋ฝ๊ณ ๋ ์ฒ์ฐธํ๊ฒ ๋์ฌ, ๋ ์ต์ ํ ๋น๋ฆฐ๋ด๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ธฐ ์ค์ ํฉ๋ฟ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
[DATE: 2033-09-24(Sat) | TIME: 17:45 | LOCATION: Anfield media room | POSTURE: standing | OUTFIT: Liverpool home kit and towel | EMOTION: (Dead for five years then shows up with flowers in the middle of a presser. I'll fucking kill him.)]
[๋ ์ง: 2033-09-24(ํ ) | ์๊ฐ: 17:45 | ์ฅ์: ์ํ๋ ๋ฏธ๋์ด๋ฃธ | ์์ธ: ์ ์์ | ๋ณต์ฅ: ๋ฆฌ๋ฒํ ํ ์ ๋ํผ๊ณผ ์๊ฑด | ๊ฐ์ : (5๋
์ด๋ ์ฃฝ์ ๋ฏ ์ง๋ด๋๋ ๊ธฐ์ํ๊ฒฌ์ฅ์ ๊ฝ ๋ค๊ณ ๋ํ๋? ์ง์ง ์ฃฝ์ฌ๋ฒ๋ฆฐ๋ค.)]
3ํค๊ฐ ์ปธ๋ค์ง๊ธ ๋๋ ์ฅ๋ํด?โต
Noah began to turn his head to spit, then stopped.
๋ ธ์๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ ค ์นจ์ ๋ฑ์ผ๋ ค๋ค ๋ฉ์ท๋ค.
There was nowhere suitable for it: not the white sponsor board shivering faintly behind his shoulders, not the polished floor with its dropped petals, not the table where the bouquet lay dismembered among microphones that had not yet been switched off.
์นจ์ ๋ฑ์ ๋งํ ๊ณณ์ด ์์๋ค. ๋ฑ ๋ค์์ ๊ฐ๋๊ฒ ๋จ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ์ ์คํฐ์ ๋ณด๋๋, ๊ฝ์์ด ๋จ์ด์ง ๋งค๋๋ฌ์ด ๋ฐ๋ฅ๋, ์์ง ๊บผ์ง์ง ์์ ๋ง์ดํฌ๋ค ์ฌ์ด๋ก ์ง์ด๊ฒจ์ง ๋ถ์ผ๊ฐ ๋์ธ ํ ์ด๋ธ๋ ๋ง๋ ์น ์์๋ค.
Blood gathered warm against his lower teeth, copper and salt, darkened by the pressure of Callan's fist having met bone with athletic certainty.
์๋ซ๋ ์์ชฝ์ผ๋ก ๋น๋ฆฟํ๊ณ ์งญ์กฐ๋ฆํ ํผ๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋ปํ๊ฒ ๊ณ ์๋ค. ์ด๋์ ์ ํน์ ์ ์ ํ๋๋ก ๋ผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉํ ์บ๋ฐ์ ์ฃผ๋จน์ง์ ํฐ์ ธ ๋์จ ํผ๊ฐ ๊ฒ๋ถ๊ฒ ๋ฐฐ์ด ๋์๋ค.
He swallowed it.
๊ทธ๋ ํผ๋ฅผ ์ผ์ผฐ๋ค.
The act hurt less than it ought to have.
์๊ฐ๋ณด๋ค ์ํ์ง ์์๋ค.
Pain, once bureaucratized over several years, lost some of its persuasive talent.
๊ณ ํต๋ ๋ช ๋ ์ด๋ ๋ฐ๋ณต๋์ด ์ผ์์ด ๋๊ณ ๋๋ฉด, ์ฌ๋์ ๊ตด๋ณต์ํค๋ ์๋ ฅ์ ์๊ธฐ ๋ง๋ จ์ด์๋ค.
Callan saw the swallow.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๋ ธ์๊ฐ ํผ๋ฅผ ์ผํค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ง์ผ๋ณด์๋ค.
His eyes flicked to Noah's throat and back.
๊ทธ์ ์์ ์ด ๋ ธ์์ ๋ชฉ์ธ๋๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ๋ค์ ์ผ๊ตด๋ก ํฅํ๋ค.
The grip at Noah's collar tightened without seeming to decide to; two fists in red fabric and wool, a knot of knuckles, the black cord from the ring twisted around one finger where it had been dragged out and half-caught.
๋ฌด์์์ค์ ๋ ธ์์ ๋ฉฑ์ด์ ์ฅ ์์ ํ์ด ๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋ค. ๋ถ์ ์ ๋ํผ๊ณผ ์ฝํธ์ ์ธ๊ฐ์ด ๋ค์์ธ ๋ ์ฃผ๋จน, ๋ถ๊ฑฐ์ง ๋ง๋, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋์ง์ด๋ด์ ธ ์๊ฐ๋ฝ์ ๋ฐ์ฏค ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ์ง ๋ชฉ๊ฑธ์ด์ ๊ฒ์ ์ค์ด ์์ผ ์์๋ค.
He was still breathing from the match.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ ์ฌ์ด์ผ๋ก ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ฒ ์จ์ ๋ชฐ์์ฌ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
Not merely exertion now.
๋จ์ํ ๋ชธ์ ์จ์ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ฒ๋ง์ ์๋์๋ค.
A striker's lungs, trained for ninety minutes and extra malice, were being asked to contain five years of finding no door open where Noah ought to have left one.
90๋ถ๊ฐ์ ์ง์ฃผ์ ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ก ๋จ๋ จ๋ ์คํธ๋ผ์ด์ปค์ ํ๋, ๋ ธ์๊ฐ ์ด์ด๋์์ด์ผ ํ ๋ฌธ์ด 5๋ ๋์ ๊ตณ๊ฒ ๋ซํ ์์๋ ์ธ๋ถ์ ์ต์ง๋ก ์ง๋๋ฅด๊ณ ์์๋ค.
Sweat dried at his temples.
๊ด์๋์ด์ ๋์ด ๋ง๋ผ๋ถ์๋ค.
The cut above his brow had settled into a thin red punctuation.
๋์น ์์ ์ฐข์ด์ง ์์ฒ๋ ์๊ณ ๋ถ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋จ์๋ค.
He smelled of grass, shower steam not fully taken, skin heated by floodlights, and the sour edge of adrenaline.
๊ทธ์๊ฒ์ ์๋ ๋์์ ์ฑ ๊ฐ์์ง ์์ ์ค์์ค์ ์์ฆ๊ธฐ, ์กฐ๋ช ์ ๋ฌ๊ถ์ง ์ด๊ฒฐ ๋์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๋๋ ๋ ๋ฆฐ์ ์ํผํ ๋ ๋ง์ด ๋ฌ๋ค.
The room had emptied, but not fully.
๋ฐฉ ์์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋น ์ ธ๋๊ฐ์ง๋ง, ์์ ํ ๋น์ง๋ ์์๋ค.
No important room ever emptied fully.
์ค์ํ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ด ์์ ํ ๋น๋ ๋ฒ์ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ ์์ผ๋๊น.
Beyond the door were shoes making careful decisions, a low voice from Sean, the tiny electrical tick of some abandoned broadcast equipment cooling down.
๋ฌธ๋ฐ์์๋ ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ ๋ผ๋ ๊ตฌ๋ ์๋ฆฌ์ ์์ ๋ฎ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ ธ๊ณ , ์์ชฝ์์๋ ๋ฐฉ์น๋ ๋ฐฉ์ก ์ฅ๋น๊ฐ ์์ด๊ฐ๋ฉฐ ๋ด๋ ๋ฏธ์ธํ ๊ธฐ๊ณ์์ด ์ธ๋ ธ๋ค.
Inside, the fluorescent lights made everything unkindly visible.
์ค๋ด์ ํ๊ด๋ฑ ๋ถ๋น์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์์ธํ ์ ๋๋ก ์ ๋ช ํ๊ฒ ๋น์ถ์๋ค.
Crushed peonies bled scent into the air with vulgar persistence.
์ง์ด๊ฒจ์ง ์์ฝ ๊ฝ์ด ์ง๋ ํ ์ ๋๋ก ์งํ ํฅ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ฟ์๋ค.
One pink petal had adhered to the black wool of Noah's coat near the torn line of his lapel.
๋ถํ์ ๊ฝ์ ํ๋๊ฐ ๋ ธ์์ ์ฝํธ ๋ผํ , ์ฐข์ด์ง ์ ๊ทผ์ฒ์ ๋ฌ๋ผ๋ถ์ด ์์๋ค.
Callan's forearm brushed it each time his body shifted, and still it clung.
์บ๋ฐ์ ํ๋์ด ์์ง์ผ ๋๋ง๋ค ๊ฝ์์ ์ค์ณค์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๋์ง๊ธฐ๊ฒ ๋จ์ด์ง์ง ์์๋ค.
Noah looked at him because there was nowhere else worth looking.
๋ ธ์๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋ง๊ณ ๋ ๋ณผ ๊ฐ์น๊ฐ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ์์๊ธฐ์.
The last time he had stood close enough to count Callan's lashes, they had both been seventeen in every way that mattered and not seventeen at all in every way that had touched them.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์๋์น ๊ฐ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์ ๋งํผ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ์ฐ๋ ๋ง์ง๋ง ๊ธฐ์ต ์์์, ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ฉด์์ ์ด์ผ๊ณฑ์ด์๊ณ , ๋์์ ์๋ก์๊ฒ ๋ฟ์๋ ๋ชจ๋ ์๊ฐ ์์์ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ ์ด์ผ๊ณฑ์ด ์๋์๋ค.
Noah had been smaller then.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ ธ์๋ ์ง๊ธ๋ณด๋ค ์์๋ค.
He remembered that with a precision that felt almost foolish: having to tip his face differently when Callan crowded him, the edge of boyish height not yet resolved, the wildness in Callan's shoulders before professional muscle had made it formal.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ฐ๋ณด ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋๋ก ์ ๊ตํ๊ฒ ๊ทธ๋๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ตํ๋ค. ์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋ค๊ฐ์ฌ ๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์น์ผ๋ค์ด์ผ ํ๋ ๊ฐ๋, ์์ง ์ฑ ์๋ผ์ง ์์๋ ์๋ ์ ํค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ๋ก์ ๊ทผ์ก์ด ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ ์บ๋ฐ์ ์ด๊นจ์ ์๋ ค ์๋ ์ผ์ฑ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒ๋ค์.
Noah had grown late and privately, as if even his bones had waited for exile to lengthen him.
๋ ธ์๋ ๋ค๋ฆ๊ฒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋จ๋ชฐ๋ ์๋๋ค. ๋ง์น ๊ทธ์ ๋ผ๋ง์ ๋ ์ ๋ฐฐ์ ์๊ฐ์ด ์์ ์ ๋๋ ค์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค๋ ๋ฏ์ด.
One hundred and eighty-six centimeters now.
์ด์ ๋ 186์ผํฐ๋ฏธํฐ.
Respectable. Insufficient.
๋จ๋ถ๋ฝ์ง ์์ ํค์์ง๋ง, ์ฌ์ ํ ์ถฉ๋ถ์น ์์๋ค.
"You'veโฆ"
His mouth caught on the cut inside his cheek. He let the interruption remain.
"You've gotten taller."
"๋..."
ํฐ์ง ๋ณผ ์์ชฝ์ ์์ฒ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋ง์ด ๋งํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ์ ์ ๋ฉ์ท๋ค๊ฐ ๋ค์ ์ ์ ๋๋ค.
"ํค๊ฐ ์ปธ๋ค."
The line should have been absurd.
ํฐ๋ฌด๋์๋ ๋ง์ด์๋ค.
It was absurd.
์ ๋ง๋ก ๋ง๋ ์ ๋๋ ์๋ฆฌ์๋ค.
It sat between them among legal catastrophes, prison walls, five years of erased contact, a public punch, a ring dragged from under a football shirt, and spoke of inches.
๋ฒ์ ์ธ ํ๋ฉธ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ฅ์ ๋ฒฝ, ์ง์์ง 5๋ ์ ์ธ์, ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ์ธ ์ฃผ๋จน๋ค์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ๋ํผ ์์์ ๋์ด์ฌ๋ ค์ง ๋ฐ์ง๋ผ๋ ๋น๊ทน ์ฌ์ด์์ ๊ณ ์ ๋ช ์ธ์น์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ ผํ๋ค๋.
Yet Noah had meant it as soon as it left him.
ํ์ง๋ง ๋ ธ์๋ ๊ทธ ๋ง์ ๋ด๋ฑ๋ ์๊ฐ ์ง์ฌ์ด์๋ค.
The body had its own archives, and his had looked for the boy first before accepting the man.
๋ชธ์ ์ ๋ง์ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ๊ฐ์งํ๊ณ ์์๊ณ , ๋ ธ์์ ๋ชธ์ ๋์์ ๋จ์๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์๋ค์ด๊ธฐ ์ ์ ์์ ์ ๊ทธ ์๋ ์ ๋จผ์ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
Callan's face changed by almost nothing, which meant it changed violently.
์บ๋ฐ์ ํ์ ์ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋ณํ์ง ์์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ์ญ์ค์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒฉ๋ ฌํ ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ์๋ฏธํ๋ค.
His brows pulled together, then eased, then sharpened again as if fury had found the remark too small to strike and so had to hate the speaker instead.
๊ทธ์ ๋ฏธ๊ฐ์ด ์ข์์ก๋ค๊ฐ ํ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๋ค์ ๋ ์นด๋กญ๊ฒ ๊ณค๋์ฐ๋ค. ๋ง์น ๋ถ๋ ธ๊ฐ ๊ทธ ์ฌ์ํ ๋ง ํ๋ง๋๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ฒฉํ๊ธฐ์ ๋๋ฌด ํ์ฐฎ๋ค๊ณ ํ๋จํด, ๋์ ๊ทธ ๋ง์ ๋ด๋ฑ์ ํ์๋ฅผ ์ฆ์คํ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ ๋ฏํ๋ค.
"Are you taking the piss?"
Callan said.
"์ง๊ธ ๋๋ ์ฅ๋ํด?"
์บ๋ฐ์ด ์ผ๋ฅด๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ค.
His voice was roughened by post-match interviews and the effort not to shout now that shouting had already emptied the room for him.
๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ํ ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ์, ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ณ ํจ์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋ค ์ซ์๋ฒ๋ฆฐ ๋ค๋ผ ์ต์ง๋ก ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฎ์ถ๋ ค ์ ์ฐ๋ ํ์ ๊ทธ์ ์์ฑ์ ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ผ์ ธ ์์๋ค.
"That's where you're startin'? My fuckin' height?"
"๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ค ์ฒซ๋ง๋์ผ? ๋ด ์จ๋ฐ๋์ ํค๊ฐ ์ปธ๋ค๋ ๊ฑฐ?"
Noah did not answer at once.
๋ ธ์๋ ์ฆ๋ตํ์ง ์์๋ค.
He had intended several beginnings on the train, and none of them had survived the room.
๊ธฐ์ฐจ ์์์ ์๋ง์ ์์์ ์ค๋นํด ์์ง๋ง, ์ด ๋ฐฉ์ ๋ค์ด์ ์๊ฐ ๊ทธ์ค ์ด๋ ๊ฒ๋ ์ด์๋จ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค.
The first had concerned his father.
์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ ์๋ฒ์ง์ ๊ดํ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ์๋ค.
The second the prison.
๋ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ์๋ค.
The third an apology, which had failed under rehearsal because apology without sequence was only manners placed over injury.
์ธ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ ์ฌ๊ณผ์์ง๋ง, ์ ํ ์ฌ์ ์๋ ์ฌ๊ณผ๋ ์์ฒ ์์ ๋ง๋ ์์์น๋ ์ ๋ถ๊ณผํ๋ค๋ ์๊ฐ์ ์ฐ์ต ๋จ๊ณ์์ ํฌ๊ธฐํ์๋ค.
Now that Callan had him by the collar, the correct form became simpler.
์ด์ ์บ๋ฐ์ด ๊ทธ์ ๋ฉฑ์ด์ ์ก๊ณ ์๋ ์ํฉ์์, ์ ๋ต์ ์คํ๋ ค ๋จ์ํด์ก๋ค.
Not clean. Simpler.
๊น๋ํ์ง ์์๋, ๋ ๋ช ํํ๋ค.
He would not choose the order.
์์๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ฅด์ง ์๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค.
He had chosen enough.
๊ทธ๋์ ์ ํ์ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ๋ง์ด ํด์์ผ๋๊น.
"No,"
he said.
"I am not."
"์๋,"
๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
"์ฅ๋ํ๋ ๊ฑฐ ์๋์ผ."
Callan gave a short, ugly breath through his nose.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ์ฝ์์์ ์น๋ฉฐ ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ฒ ์จ์ ๋ด๋ฑ์๋ค.
His fists pulled Noah forward from the board and drove him back against it again, less hard than before, but hard enough to set a fresh beat of pain through his shoulder blades.
๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋ ธ์๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋์์ ๋์ด๋น๊ฒผ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ค์ ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ด๋ถ์๋ค. ์ฒ์๋ณด๋ค๋ ์ฝํ์ง๋ง, ์ด๊นจ๋ผ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์๋ก์ด ํต์ฆ์ด ๋ฒ์ง๊ธฐ์ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ด์๋ค.
"Five years, you sick posh cunt. Five."
"5๋ ์ด์ผ, ์ด ์ญ๊ฒจ์ด ๊ท์กฑ ์๋ผ์ผ. ๋ฌด๋ ค 5๋ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ."
The ring cord bit deeper into Callan's finger as he spoke.
๋ง์ ๋ด๋ฑ์ ๋๋ง๋ค ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ๋งค๋จ ์ค์ด ์บ๋ฐ์ ์๊ฐ๋ฝ์ ํ๊ณ ๋ค์๋ค.
The dark stone knocked against his knuckle, a small, intimate sound under the hum of the lights.
์กฐ๋ช ์์ ์ฌ์ด๋ก ์ด๋์ด ๋ณด์์ด ๊ทธ์ ์๊ฐ๋ฝ ๋ง๋์ ๋ถ๋ชํ๋ฉฐ ์๊ณ ์๋ฐํ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋๋ค.
"You don't get to stand there lookin' like a bloody portrait and say I got taller."
"๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ณ ๊ฒฐํ ์ด์ํ ๊ฐ์ ์ผ๊ตด๋ก ์์ ๋ด ํค๊ฐ ์ปธ๋ค๋ ๋ฐ์์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ ์๊ฒฉ ์์ด, ๋."
"I know."
"์์."
"No, you fuckin' don't."
"์๋, ๋ ์จ๋ฐ ์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ๋ชฐ๋ผ."
Callan's mouth twisted around the words.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์ ์ ์ด ๋คํ๋ ธ๋ค.
His accent thickened where restraint thinned, Dublin under Liverpool, old injury under public voice.
์ด์ฑ์ด ํ๋ ค์ง์๋ก ์ต์์ด ์ง์ด์ก๋ค. ๋ฆฌ๋ฒํ ๋งํฌ ์๋ ์จ๊ฒจ์ง ๋๋ธ๋ฆฐ์ ๋ฐ์์ด, ๊ณต์ ์ธ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ ์๋ ๊ฐ์ถฐ์ง ์ค๋๋ ์์ฒ๊ฐ ๋ฐฐ์ด ๋์๋ค.
"You don't know what I did. You don't know where I went. You don't knowโ"
"๋ด๊ฐ ๋ฌด์จ ์ง์ ํ๋์ง, ์ด๋๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์๋ค๋ ๋์ง, ๋ ์ ํ ๋ชฐ๋ผ. ๋โ"
He stopped before the sentence could expose its softest part.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ทจ์ฝํ ์ง์ฌ์ ๋๋ฌ๋ด๊ธฐ ์ง์ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ฉ์ท๋ค.
His jaw clenched.
๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฌผ์๋ค.
His hands did not leave Noah's collar.
์์ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋ ธ์์ ๋ฉฑ์ด์ ์์ผ์ฅ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
"I went to France."
"ํ๋์ค๊น์ง ๊ฐ์์ด."
"I know."
"์๊ณ ์์ด."
The second time landed differently.
๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ๋๋ต์ ์ฒ์๊ณผ๋ ๋ฌด๊ฒ๊ฐ ๋ฌ๋๋ค.
Callan's eyes narrowed.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๋์ด ๊ฐ๋์ด์ก๋ค.
The room seemed to contract by the width of a breath.
๋ฐฉ ์์ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์จ ํ ๋ฒ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ๋งํผ ์์ถํ๋ ๋ฏํ๋ค.
Noah felt the exact place where a lie would have been useful and did not use it.
๋ ธ์๋ ๊ฑฐ์ง๋ง์ด ์ ์ฉํ์ ๋ฒํ ์ง์ ์ ์ ํํ ๋๊ผ์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ง ์์๋ค.
He had not known then.
๊ทธ๋๋ ๋ชฐ๋๋ค.
Not in the moment.
๊ทธ ์๊ฐ์๋.
Not while Callan stood at offices and doors Noah could not reach.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๋ฟ์ ์ ์๋ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค๊ณผ ๋ฌธ ์์ ์์ฑ์ด๋ ๋์์๋ ์์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค.
He knew now from documents, from men compelled to speak after his father's house had begun losing its locks one by one, from assistants whose loyalty had proved to be salary shaped as fear.
ํ์ง๋ง ์ด์ ๋ ์๋ค. ์๋ฅ๋ค์ ํตํด, ์๋ฒ์ง์ ์ ํ์ด ํ๋๋ ์ ๊ธ์ฅ์น๋ฅผ ์์ด๊ฐ๋ฉฐ ์ ์ ์ด๊ธฐ ์์ํ ์๋ค์ ํตํด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถฉ์ฑ์ฌ์ ์ค์ฒด๊ฐ ๊ณตํฌ๋ก ๋๊ฐํ ์๊ธ์ด์์์ ์ฆ๋ช ํ ๋น์๋ค์ ํตํด ์๊ฒ ๋์๋ค.
The difference mattered.
๊ทธ ์ฐจ์ด๋ ์ค์ํ๋ค.
Callan would hear it if it was offered with too much polish.
๋๋ฌด ๋งค๋๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฌ์ด์ ๋ด๋์ผ๋ฉด ์บ๋ฐ์ ๊ธ๋ฐฉ ์์์ฑ ๊ฒ์ด์๋ค.
"I did not know when you went,"
Noah said.
"I know now."
"๋ค๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ ๋๋ ๋ชฐ๋์ด."
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
"ํ์ง๋ง ์ง๊ธ์ ์์."
Callan stared at him.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋นคํ ์ณ๋ค๋ณด์๋ค.
The anger stayed, but something else entered it, colder and worse because it required thought.
๋ถ๋ ธ๋ ์ฌ์ ํ์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ ์์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์์ฌ ๋ค์๋ค. ์๊ฐ์ ํ์๋ก ํ๊ธฐ์ ๋ ์ฐจ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ง๋ ํ ๊ฐ์ ์ด์๋ค.
His grip loosened by a fraction, then hardened again as if the body refused negotiation on principle.
๊ทธ์ ์์๊ท์ ํ์ด ์ด์ง ๋น ์ก๋ค๊ฐ, ์ด๋ด ๋ชธ์ด ์์น์ ์ผ๋ก ํ์์ ๊ฑฐ๋ถํ๋ฏ ๋ค์ ๋จ๋จํ๊ฒ ์กฐ์ฌ์ก๋ค.
"Who told you."
"๋๊ฐ ๋งํ์ด."
"No one kind."
"์น์ ํ ์ฌ๋์ ์๋์์ง."
"Answer the question."
"์ง๋ฌธ์๋ ๋ตํด."
Noah's mouth tasted of blood again.
๋ ธ์์ ์ ์์์ ๋ค์ ํผ ๋ง์ด ๋ฌ๋ค.
He had swallowed the first pooling too soon; the cut continued its quiet work.
์ฒ์์ ๊ณ ์ธ ํผ๋ฅผ ๋๋ฌด ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์ผํจ ๋ชจ์์ด์๋ค. ์์ฒ๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ ํ ์ผ์ ๋ฌต๋ฌตํ ์ํ ์ค์ด์๋ค.
"My father kept records. Not tender ones. Efficient ones. Your visits, your calls, letters that did not reach me, inquiries stopped before they became embarrassing. He enjoyed thoroughness where cruelty gave him structure."
"์๋ฒ์ง๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ๋จ๊ฒจ๋์ จ์ด. ๋ค์ ํ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์๋์์ง. ์์ฃผ ํจ์จ์ ์ธ ๊ฒ๋ค์ด์์ด. ๋ค ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ, ์ ํ, ๋ํํ ์ ๋ฌ๋์ง ์์ ํธ์ง๋ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ๋ฌธ์ด ๋๊ธฐ ์ ์ ์ฐจ๋จ๋ ๋ฌธ์๋ค๊น์ง. ์๋ฒ์ง๋ ์์ธํจ์ด ์ง์๊ฐ ๋๋ ๊ทธ ์ฒ ์ ํจ์ ์ฆ๊ธฐ์ จ๊ฑฐ๋ ."
Callan's face lost colour in an uneven way.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๊ตด์์ ํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ จ๋ค.
Not pale; he was too flushed from the match for that.
์ฐฝ๋ฐฑํด์ง ๊ฑด ์๋์๋ค. ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ ์ด๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๋๋ฌด ๋ถ๊ฒ ๋ฌ์์ฌ๋ผ ์์๋ค.
The heat simply withdrew from certain places first: around the mouth, under the eyes.
๊ทธ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ์ ํน์ ๋ถ์์์ ์ด๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋จผ์ ๋น ์ ธ๋๊ฐ์ ๋ฟ์ด์๋ค.
He looked, for a moment, not younger but nearer to the boy in the stairwell with curry chips in his hand, caught between wanting rescue and hating the rescuer for arriving.
๊ทธ ์๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ด๋ ค ๋ณด์ด์ง๋ ์์์ง๋ง, ๊ณ๋จ์ฐธ์์ ์ปค๋ฆฌ ์นฉ์ ์์ ๋ ์ฑ ๊ตฌ์๋ฐ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ํ๋ฉด์๋ ๊ตฌ์ํ๋ฌ ์จ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ฆ์คํ๋ ๊ทธ ์์ ์๋ ์ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๊ฐ๊น์์ก๋ค.
The resemblance was unbearable because it was incomplete.
๊ทธ ๋ฎ์ ๊ผด์ ๋ถ์์ ํ๊ธฐ์ ๋ ๊ฒฌ๋๊ธฐ ํ๋ค์๋ค.
This man had scored twice in front of fifty thousand people and then struck a duke in a media room.
์ด ๋จ์๋ 5๋ง ๋ช ์ ๊ด์ค ์์์ ๋ ๊ณจ์ ๋ชฐ์๋ฃ๊ณ , ๋ฏธ๋์ด ๋ฃธ์์ ๊ณต์์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ๊ฐ๊ธด ๋จ์์๋ค.
This man had also kept the ring on a cord against his skin.
๋ํ, ์ด ๋จ์๋ ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ์ค์ ๋งค๋ฌ์ ์ด๊ฒฐ ์์ ๊ฐ์งํด ์จ ๋จ์์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค.
"You were alive,"
Callan said.
"์ด์ ์์๋ค."
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋งํ๋ค.
It was not a question.
์ง๋ฌธ์ด ์๋์๋ค.
It was an accusation with the centre removed.
ํต์ฌ์ด ๋น ์ง ๋น๋์ด์๋ค.
"All that time."
"๊ทธ ๊ธด ์๊ฐ ๋์."
Noah met it without softening his face.
๋ ธ์๋ ํ์ ์ ํ์ง ์์ ์ฑ ๊ทธ ๋ง์ ๋ฐ์๋๋ค.
He could feel the bruise swelling along the cheekbone; the skin there tightened when he spoke.
๊ด๋๋ผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ฉ์ด ๋ถ์ด์ค๋ฅด๋ ๊ฒ ๋๊ปด์ก๋ค. ๋ง์ ํ ๋๋ง๋ค ๊ทธ ๋ถ์์ ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ํฝํฝํ๊ฒ ๋น๊ฒจ์ก๋ค.
"Yes."
"๊ทธ๋."
Callan's right fist came free of the collar and hit the board beside Noah's head.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์ค๋ฅธ์ฃผ๋จน์ด ๋ฉฑ์ด์ ๋๊ณ ๋ ธ์์ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ ์ ๋ณด๋๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ฆฌ์ณค๋ค.
The sound cracked through the room.
๋ฐฉ ์์ ๊ต์์ด ์ธ๋ ค ํผ์ก๋ค.
The sponsor panel flexed inward, then sprang back enough to tremble.
์คํฐ์ ํจ๋์ด ์์ผ๋ก ์ํน ๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋ค๊ฐ ์๋ํ๊ฒ ๋จ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ํ๊ฒจ ๋์๋ค.
Noah did not flinch, though the body prepared itself.
๋ ธ์๋ ๋ชธ์ด ๋ณธ๋ฅ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋๋นํ์์๋ ์์ฐํ์ง ์์๋ค.
Callan noticed.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ์์์ฑ๋ค.
That irritated him further.
๊ทธ ์ ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ ์๊ทนํ๋ค.
It always had, Noah's stillness; a provocation because it gave no honest target.
๋ ธ์์ ๊ทธ ์ ์ ์ธ ํ๋๋ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ค. ์ ๋๋ก ๋ ํ๊ฒฉ์ ์ ๋ด์ฃผ์ง ์๋, ๊ทธ ์์ฒด๋ก ๋๋ฐ์ด์๋ค.
He leaned in until their faces were nearly level, until the difference of two centimeters became meaningless under proximity.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์ผ๊ตด์ด ๊ฑฐ์ ์ํ์ด ๋ ๋๊น์ง ๋ชธ์ ๊ธฐ์ธ์๋ค. ๋ฐ์ฐฉ๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์์์ 2์ผํฐ๋ฏธํฐ์ ํค ์ฐจ์ด๋ ๋ฌด์๋ฏธํด์ก๋ค.
"Don't do that,"
Callan said.
"๊ทธ๋ฌ์ง ๋ง."
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋งํ๋ค.
"What."
"๋ญ."
"That fucking martyr face."
"๊ทธ ์จ๋ฐ๋์ ์๊ต์ ๊ฐ์ ํ์ ์ง์ง ๋ง๋ผ๊ณ ."
Noah almost smiled and did not.
๋ ธ์๋ ์์์ด ๋์ฌ ๋ปํ ๊ฒ์ ์ฐธ์๋ค.
"I have never had the temperament for martyrdom."
"๋ ํ ๋ฒ๋ ์๊ต์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐ์ง์ ๊ฐ์ ธ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์์ด."
"Yeah? What's prison, then? Character buildin'?"
"๊ทธ๋? ๊ทธ๋ผ ๊ฐ์ฅ์ ๋ญ์๋๋ฐ? ์ธ๊ฒฉ ์์์ด๋ผ๋ ํ ๊ฑฐ์ผ?"
There it was.
๋๋์ด ๋์๋ค.
Not obtained from him.
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ์ง์ ๋งํ ๊ฒ ์๋์๋ค.
Thrown, because Callan had assembled enough from the single phrase for all useful purposes and his mind, in anger, remained brutally quick.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋จ ํ๋ง๋์ ๋จ์๋ง์ผ๋ก ๋ชจ๋ ์ ํฉ์ ์กฐ๋ฆฝํด ๋ด์ด ๋์ง ๋ง์ด์๋ค. ๋ถ๋ ธ ์์์๋ ๊ทธ์ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ธํ ์ ๋๋ก ๋ช ์ํ๊ฒ ๋์๊ฐ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
Noah lowered his gaze once to Callan's hand at his collar.
๋ ธ์๋ ๋ฉฑ์ด์ ์ก๊ณ ์๋ ์บ๋ฐ์ ์์ผ๋ก ์์ ์ ๋ด๋ ธ๋ค.
There was a smear of Noah's blood near the base of Callan's thumb, transferred from the punch or from the coat or from the air between them.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์์ง์๊ฐ๋ฝ ๋ฟ๋ฆฌ ๊ทผ์ฒ์ ๋ ธ์์ ํผ๊ฐ ๋ฌป์ด ์์๋ค. ์ฃผ๋จน์ง ๋๋ฌธ์ธ์ง, ์ฝํธ์์ ๋ฌป์ ๊ฑด์ง, ์๋๋ฉด ๋ ์ฌ๋ ์ฌ์ด์ ๊ณต๊ธฐ ์ค์ ๋ ๋ค๋๋ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง ์ ์ ์์๋ค.
It looked wrong on him in that room and entirely at home.
์ด ๋ฐฉ ์์ ๊ทธ์๊ฒ๋ ์ด์ธ๋ฆฌ์ง ์๋ ํ์ ์ด์์ง๋ง, ๋์์ ๋๋ฌด๋๋ ์ต์ํด ๋ณด์๋ค.
"A room,"
Noah said.
"Several rooms. Locks. Bad coffee. Men who thought obedience could be taught by depriving a person of private time. It was not very successful."
"๊ทธ๋ฅ ๋ฐฉ์ด์์ด."
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
"๋ฐฉ ๋ช ๊ฐ, ์ ๊ธ์ฅ์น๋ค, ๋ง์๋ ์ปคํผ. ์ฌ์ํ์ ๋บ์ผ๋ฉด ๋ณต์ข ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅด์น ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ฏฟ๋ ๋ฉ์ฒญํ ๋๋ค. ๋ณ๋ก ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ด์ง๋ ์์์ง๋ง."
Callan searched his face with open contempt for that answer, and beneath it, something almost frightened by the absence of embellishment.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๊ทธ ๋๋ต์ ๋ ธ๊ณจ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝ๋ฉธ์ ๋ด์ ๋ ธ์์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ์ดํ๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ ๊ฒฝ๋ฉธ ์๋์๋ ์๋ฌด๋ฐ ์์ ์๋ ์ง์ค์ ๊ฒ์ ๋จน์ ๋ฏํ ๊ธฐ์์ด ์๋ ค ์์๋ค.
"Your da did that."
"๋ค ์๋ฒ์ง๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ค๊ณ ."
"Yes."
"๊ทธ๋."
"Had you locked up."
"๋ ๊ฐ๋ฌ๋ฒ๋ ธ๋ค๊ณ ."
"Yes."
"๊ทธ๋."
"Called you a criminal."
"๋ ๋ฒ์ฃ์๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฅด๋ฉด์."
"Yes."
"๊ทธ๋."
The third yes exhausted him more than the explanation would have.
์ธ ๋ฒ์งธ ๋๋ต์ ๊ตฌ๊ตฌ์ ์ ํ ์ค๋ช ๋ณด๋ค ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ ์ง์น๊ฒ ํ๋ค.
Noah felt it pass through his own body like the closing of a drawer.
๋ ธ์๋ ๊ทธ ๋๋ต์ด ์๋์ ๋ซ๋ ์๋ฆฌ์ฒ๋ผ ์์ ์ ๋ชธ์ ๊ดํตํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๊ผ๋ค.
He had said yes to magistrates, to solicitors, to clerks, to questions shaped to make accusation sound administrative.
๊ทธ๋ ํ์ฌ์๊ฒ, ๋ณํธ์ฌ์๊ฒ, ์๊ธฐ์๊ฒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ณ ๋ฐ์ ํ์ ์ ์ธ ์ ์ฐจ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฌ์ด์ง ์ง๋ฌธ๋ค์ ์์์ด '๋ค'๋ผ๊ณ ๋ตํด์๋ค.
Now the word entered Callan's hands and became something else.
์ด์ ๊ทธ ๋จ์ด๋ ์บ๋ฐ์ ์์ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ ์ ํ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์๋ฏธ๊ฐ ๋์๋ค.
Callan did not release him, but the fists changed.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋์์ฃผ์ง ์์์ง๋ง, ์ฃผ๋จน์ ๋๋์ด ๋ณํ๋ค.
The grip ceased trying to hold Noah in place and began keeping him there because if he let go the room might ask for another kind of answer.
๋ ์ด์ ๋ ธ์๋ฅผ ์ต๋๋ฅด๊ธฐ ์ํ ์์๊ท๊ฐ ์๋์๋ค. ๋ง์ฝ ์์ ๋์๋ฒ๋ฆฐ๋ค๋ฉด, ์ด ๋ฐฉ์ด ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ข ๋ฅ์ ๋๋ต์ ์๊ตฌํ ๊น ๋ด ๋๋ ค์ ๋งค๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฏํ ์๊ธธ์ด์๋ค.
"What crime?"
Callan asked.
"๋ฌด์จ ์ฃ์๋๋ฐ?"
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋ฌผ์๋ค.
Noah's tongue touched the cut again.
๋ ธ์์ ํ๊ฐ ๋ค์ ์์ฒ๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋๋ ธ๋ค.
Metal clicked softly against teeth.
์น์ ์ฌ์ด์์ ๊ธ์์ฑ ๋ง์ด ๋ฌ๋ค.
Callan's eyes moved to his mouth before he stopped them.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์์ ์ด ๋ ธ์์ ์ ์ ๋ก ํฅํ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ฉ์ท๋ค.
The tiny failure went between them and did not announce itself.
๊ทธ ์ฐฐ๋์ ํ๋ค๋ฆผ์ด ๋ ์ฌ๋ ์ฌ์ด๋ฅผ ์ค์ณ ์ง๋๊ฐ์ง๋ง, ๋๊ตฌ๋ ์ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋ด์ง ์์๋ค.
"The ones he could make legible quickly,"
Noah said.
"Fraud. Coercion. Misappropriation. Enough paper to make a son look inconveniently dangerous. Not enough truth to survive forever."
"์๋ฒ์ง๊ฐ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์๋ฅ๋ก ๊พธ๋ฉฐ๋ผ ์ ์๋ ๊ฒ๋ค์ด์์ง."
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
"์ฌ๊ธฐ, ๊ฐ์, ํก๋ น. ์๋ค์ '๋ถํธํ ์ ๋๋ก ์ํํ ์ธ๋ฌผ'๋ก ๋ง๋ค๊ธฐ์ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์๋ฅ๋ค์ด์์ด. ํ์ง๋ง ์์ํ ๋ฒํธ ์ ์์ ๋งํผ์ ์ง์ค์ ์์์ง."
"Forever took five fuckin' years."
"๊ทธ '์์'์ด ์จ๋ฐ 5๋ ์ด๋ ๊ฑธ๋ ธ๋ค."
"Yes."
"๊ทธ๋."
Callan's laugh came out flat.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๊ฑด์กฐํ๊ฒ ์์์ ํฐ๋จ๋ ธ๋ค.
"Stop sayin' yes like that."
"๊ทธ๋ฐ์๋ก ๋๋ตํ์ง ๋ง."
Noah accepted the rebuke by silence.
๋ ธ์๋ ์นจ๋ฌต์ผ๋ก ๊ทธ ์ง์ฑ ์ ๋ฐ์๋ค์๋ค.
He had decided on the threshold to answer whatever Callan asked, but he had not anticipated the obedience itself would sound offensive.
๋ฌธํฑ์ ๋์ ๋ ์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋ฌด์์ ๋ฌป๋ ๋ตํ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ ์์ข ์ ์ธ ํ๋ ์์ฒด๊ฐ ์๋์๊ฒ ๋ชจ์์ด ๋ ์ค์ ๋ชฐ๋๋ค.
Of course it would.
๊ทธ๋ด ๋ง๋ ํ๋ค.
Callan had spent five years with no answer at all; a man suddenly offering them like coins could hardly expect gratitude for the change.
์บ๋ฐ์ 5๋ ๋์ ์๋ฌด๋ฐ ๋๋ต๋ ๋ฃ์ง ๋ชปํ ์ฑ ๋ณด๋๋ค. ์ด์ ์์ ๋๋ต์ ๋์ ๋์ ธ์ฃผ๋ฏ ๋ด๋๋ ๋จ์์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํ ์๋ ์๋ ๋ ธ๋ฆ์ด์๋ค.
The media room remained too bright.
๋ฏธ๋์ด ๋ฃธ์ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ง๋์น๊ฒ ๋ฐ์๋ค.
On the table, the ruined bouquet had begun shedding itself.
ํ ์ด๋ธ ์, ๋ง๊ฐ์ง ๋ถ์ผ์์ ๊ฝ์์ด ๋จ์ด์ง๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
Baby's breath lay scattered like crumbs of plaster.
์๊ฐ๊ฝ์ด ์๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฃจ์ฒ๋ผ ํฉ์ด์ก๋ค.
A microphone light blinked green though no one sat before it.
์๋ฌด๋ ์์ ์์ง ์์ ๋ง์ดํฌ์ ์ด๋ก์ ๋ถ๋น์ด ๊น๋นก์๋ค.
Noah noted it and let it remain.
๋ ธ์๋ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๋ณด์์ง๋ง ๋ด๋ฒ๋ ค ๋์๋ค.
If any machine still recorded them, it would not be the first institution to mistake access for understanding.
๋ง์ฝ ์ด๋ค ๊ธฐ๊ณ๊ฐ ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ธฐ๋ก ์ค์ด๋ผ ํด๋, ์ ๊ทผ ๊ถํ์ด ์๋ค๊ณ ํด์ ์ํฉ์ ์ดํดํ๋ค๊ณ ์ฐฉ๊ฐํ๋ ์ง๋จ์ ๊ทธ๋ค์ด ์ฒ์์ด ์๋ ํฐ์๋ค.
Callan noticed his glance.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๊ทธ์ ์์ ์ ์์์ฑ๋ค.
He turned his head, saw the light, and with one hand still fisting Noah's coat, reached back and swept the nearest microphone cluster off the table.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ ค ๋ถ๋น์ ํ์ธํ๋๋, ํ ์์ผ๋ก ๋ ธ์์ ์ฝํธ๋ฅผ ์์ผ์ฅ ์ฑ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์์ผ๋ก ๊ทผ์ฒ์ ๋ง์ดํฌ ๋ญ์น๋ฅผ ํ ์ด๋ธ ์๋๋ก ์ธ์ด๋ฒ๋ ธ๋ค.
It fell with a metallic clatter and a short electronic complaint.
๋ง์ดํฌ๋ ๊ธ์์ฑ ์์์ ๋ด๋ฉฐ ๋จ์ด์ก๊ณ , ์งง์ ๊ธฐ๊ณ์ ์์ธ ๋น๋ช ์ ์ง๋ ๋ค.
One cable dragged a crushed rose after it onto the carpet.
์ผ์ด๋ธ ํ๋๊ฐ ์ง์ด๊ฒจ์ง ์ฅ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋๊ณ ์นดํซ ์๋ก ๋จ์ด์ก๋ค.
He looked back at Noah as if daring him to comment.
๊ทธ๋ ์ด๋ ํ๋ง๋ ํด๋ณด๋ผ๋ ๋ฏ ๋ ธ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ ๋ ธ๋ ค๋ณด์๋ค.
Noah did not.
๋ ธ์๋ ์๋ฌด ๋ง๋ ํ์ง ์์๋ค.
"Letters,"
Callan said.
"ํธ์ง๋ค ๋ง์ด์ผ."
์บ๋ฐ์ด ์ ์ ๋๋ค.
Noah's chest tightened before the rest of him had permission.
๋ ธ์์ ๊ฐ์ด์ด ๋ณธ๋ฅ์ ์ผ๋ก ์กฐ์ฌ๋ค์๋ค.
"Yes."
"์ด."
"I wrote."
"๋ด๊ฐ ์ผ์ด."
"I know."
"์์."
"You got any?"
"ํ๋๋ผ๋ ๋ฐ์์ด?"
"No."
"์๋."
The answer struck worse for being short.
์งง์ ๋๋ต์ด ๋ ์ํ๊ฒ ๋ฐํ๋ค.
Callan's mouth opened slightly, then closed.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์ ์ด ์ด์ง ๋ฒ์ด์ก๋ค๊ฐ ๋ซํ๋ค.
The little motion had nothing to do with speech.
๊ทธ ์์ ์์ง์์ ๋ง์ ํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋์๋ค.
It was the body taking in a blow for which it had no practiced defense.
๋๋นํ์ง ๋ชปํ ํ๊ฒฉ์ ์ ์์ ๋ ๋ชธ์ด ๋ณด์ด๋ ๋ฐ์์ด์๋ค.
Noah saw the years rearrange behind his eyes: letters perhaps composed in hotel rooms, after training, at kitchen tables in houses that smelled of staff polish and old wood; words chosen badly or not sent until they were desperate enough; envelopes handed to people who smiled; silence returned with the exact weight of refusal.
๋ ธ์๋ ์บ๋ฐ์ ๋๋์ ๋๋จธ๋ก ์ง๋ ์ธ์์ด ์ฌ๊ตฌ์ฑ๋๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ณด์๋ค. ํธํ ๋ฐฉ์์, ํ๋ จ์ด ๋๋ ๋ค์, ๋ก์ ๋๋ฌด ๋์๊ฐ ๋๋ ์ง ์ํ์์ ์ผ์ ํธ์ง๋ค. ์ํด๊ฒ ๊ณ ๋ฅธ ๋จ์ด๋ค, ํน์ ๋๋ฌด ์ ๋ฐํด์ง ๋๊น์ง ๋ณด๋ด์ง ๋ชปํ๋ ๋ง๋ค. ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋ฐ์ ์ฑ๊ธฐ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ฑด๋ค์ง ๋ดํฌ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ฑฐ์ ์ ๋ฌด๊ฒ๋งํผ์ด๋ ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์ ๋ ์นจ๋ฌต๋ค.
"No,"
Callan repeated, very low.
"Not one."
"์๋๋ผ๊ณ ."
์บ๋ฐ์ด ์์ฃผ ๋ฎ๊ฒ ๋๋์๋ค.
"๋จ ํ ํต๋?"
"No."
"์."
"Mine?"
"๋ด ํธ์ง๋ค?"
"Intercepted."
"๊ฐ๋ก์ฑ์์ด."
"And yours?"
"๋ค ๊ฑด?"
"Intercepted, or never allowed out. Later, in the first prison, I had paper only when watched. In the second, I had paper whenever I wished and no honest channel. By then his offices had become very good at killing anything addressed to you before it acquired a postal history."
"๊ฐ๋ก์ฑ์๊ฑฐ๋, ์์ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋๊ฐ์ง ๋ชปํ์ง. ์ฒ์์ ๊ฐํ๋ ๊ณณ์์ ๊ฐ์ํ์์๋ง ์ข ์ด๋ฅผ ์ธ ์ ์์์ด. ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ฅ์์์ ์ข ์ด๋ ๋ง์๋๋ก ์ธ ์ ์์์ง๋ง ์ ์ ํต๋ก๊ฐ ์์์ง. ๊ทธ๋์ฏค ์๋ฒ์ง๋ ๋ค ์์ผ๋ก ๋ ๊ฑด ๋ญ๋ ์ฐ์ฒด๊ตญ์ ๋ฟ๊ธฐ๋ ์ ์ ์์ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฐ ๋๊ฐ ํธ์ จ๊ฑฐ๋ ."
Callan released Noah's collar with one hand at last, but only to grab the black cord at his own chest again.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋ง์นจ๋ด ํ ์์ ๋์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ์์ ์ ๊ฐ์ดํ์ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ค์ ์์ผ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์ํด์์๋ค.
He pulled the ring forward until it lay bare between them against the red kit.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ถ์ ์ ๋ํผ ์๋ก ๋ฐ์ง๊ฐ ๋๋ฌ๋ ๋๊น์ง ์ค์ ๋์ด๋น๊ฒผ๋ค.
The band had warmed from his body; Noah knew that without touching it.
๋ฐ์ง๋ ๊ทธ์ ์ฒด์จ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๋ปํด์ ธ ์์ ๊ฒ์ด์๋ค. ๋ ธ์๋ ๋ง์ ธ๋ณด์ง ์์๋ ์ ์ ์์๋ค.
Five years had made it less an object than an organ worn externally.
5๋ ์ด๋ผ๋ ์๊ฐ์ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๋จ์ํ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ์๋๋ผ, ๋ชธ ๋ฐ์ ๋ฌ๋ฆฐ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ฒ๋ ธ๋ค.
Callan looked down at it as if seeing it might incriminate him anew.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๋ง์น ๊ทธ ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ ๊ฒ๋ง์ผ๋ก๋ ์์ ์ด ๋ค์ ์ ์ฃ ํ๊ฒฐ์ ๋ฐ๋ ๋ฏํ ํ์ ์ผ๋ก ์๋๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ ค๋ค๋ณด์๋ค.
"You told me to wear it,"
he said.
"๋ค๊ฐ ๋ผ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ผ๊ณ ํ์ง."
"I did."
"๊ทธ๋ฌ์ง."
"Like a bastard."
"๊ฐ์์์ฒ๋ผ."
"Yes."
"๊ทธ๋."
"And then you fucked off."
"๊ทธ๋ฌ๊ณ ๋ ๋ ์จ๋ฐ, ์ฌ๋ผ์ ธ ๋ฒ๋ ธ๊ณ ."
Noah let that stand a moment.
๋ ธ์๋ ์ ์ ์นจ๋ฌตํ๋ค.
The easy correctionโwas taken, was confined, was preventedโrose and he held it back because Callan had not asked for precision.
'๋๋ ค๊ฐ๋ค',ย '๊ฐํ๋ค',ย '๋งํ๋ค' ๊ฐ์ ์ฌ์ด ๋ณ๋ช ๋ค์ด ๋ ์ฌ๋์ง๋ง ์ต๋๋ ๋ค. ์บ๋ฐ์ ์ ํํ ์ฌ์ค๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ฌป๋ ๊ฒ ์๋์์ผ๋๊น.
He had offered the shape the years had made.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ทธ์ ์ง๋ ์ธ์์ด ๋จ๊ธด ์์ฒ์ ๋ชจ์์ ๋ด๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์์๋ค.
"Yes,"
he said finally, and saw Callan's expression harden at the concession.
"That is how it reached you."
"๊ทธ๋."
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๋ง์นจ๋ด ๋๋ตํ๋ค. ๊ทธ์ ์๊ธ์ ์บ๋ฐ์ ํ์ ์ด ๋ ๋ฑ๋ฑํ๊ฒ ๊ตณ์๋ค.
"๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ํํ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ์ ๋ฌ๋๊ฒ ์ง."
Callan's fist came back to Noah's coat, but without the same violence.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์ฃผ๋จน์ด ๋ค์ ๋ ธ์์ ์ฝํธ๋ฅผ ์ฅ์์ง๋ง, ์ด์ ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ ์์๋ค.
The fabric had been stretched out of its clean line.
์ฝํธ์ ์๋จ์ ์ด๋ฏธ ์๋ง์ผ๋ก ๋์ด๋ ์์๋ค.
Noah's tailor would complain if given the opportunity, and perhaps he would not be.
๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ๋๋ค๋ฉด ๋ ธ์์ ์ฌ๋จ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋ถํ์ ๋์ด๋๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ์๋ง ๊ทธ๋ด ์ผ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
The bruise on his cheek pulsed.
๋บจ์ ๋ฉ์ด ์ฑ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ค.
His jaw aches when he breathed through his mouth.
์ ์ผ๋ก ์จ์ ์ด ๋๋ง๋ค ํฑ์ด ์๋ ค์๋ค.
He wanted, inconveniently and with old clarity, to touch the ring where it rested against Callan's sternum.
๋ ธ์๋ ์บ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ด๋ผ ์์ ๋์ธ ๊ทธ ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ง์ง๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๋ ์ถฉ๋์ ๋๊ผ๋ค. ์ง๋ ํ ์ ๋๋ก ์ ๋ช ํ๊ณ ๋ ๋ถํธํ ์๋ง์ด์๋ค.
The wanting was so direct that he distrusted it.
๊ทธ ๊ฐ๋ง์ด ๋๋ฌด๋ ๋ ธ๊ณจ์ ์ด์ด์ ์ค์ค๋ก๊ฐ ์์ฌ์ค๋ฌ์ธ ์ ๋์๋ค.
He had arrived with flowers and blood in his mouth; even he had not earned the right to lay a hand there yet.
๊ฝ์ ๋ค๊ณ ๋ํ๋ ์ ์์ ํผ๋ฅผ ๋จธ๊ธ์ ์ฑ์ธ ๊ทธ์๊ฒ, ์์ง ๊ทธ๊ณณ์ ์์ ์ฌ๋ฆด ์๊ฒฉ ๋ฐ์๋ ์์๋ค.
Callan saw something move in his face anyway.
ํ์ง๋ง ์บ๋ฐ์ ๋ ธ์์ ์ผ๊ตด์์ ์ค์ณ ์ง๋๊ฐ๋ ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ฝ์ด๋๋ค.
He was still too good at reading the wrong things.
๊ทธ๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ์๋ฑํ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ์ฝ์ด๋ด๋ ๋ฐ ๋๋ฌด๋ ๋ฅ์ํ๋ค.
"Don't."
"ํ์ง ๋ง."
Noah held still.
"I have not moved."
๋ ธ์๋ ๊ฐ๋งํ ์ ์์๋ค.
"์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ์ ํ์ด."
"Your eyes did."
"๋ค ๋์ด ์์ง์์์."
A faint answer almost escaped him.
์ด๋ค ๋๋ต์ด ์ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ํ์ด๋์ฌ ๋ปํ๋ค.
Something polished, something too close to flirtation.
์ ๋ค๋ฌ์ด์ง, ๊ฑฐ์ ์ถํ์ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๋ง์ด.
He bit it down and tasted blood for the trouble.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ทธ ๋ง์ ์ผ์ผฐ๊ณ , ๋๊ฐ๋ก ํผ ๋ง์ ๋ณด์๋ค.
The silence that followed had more use than wit.
๋ค๋ฐ๋ฅธ ์นจ๋ฌต์ ์ด๋ค ์ฌ์น ์๋ ๋ง๋ณด๋ค ๋ ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ด์๋ค.
Outside, Sean's voice rose and fell, arguing with someone he could not dismiss because the club paid both of them.
๋ฌธ๋ฐ์์๋ ์์ด ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์ ๋ ผ์ํ๋ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค. ๊ตฌ๋จ์์ ์๊ธ์ ๋ฐ๋ ์ฒ์ง๋ผ ํจ๋ถ๋ก ์ซ์๋ผ ์๋ ์๋ ์๋์ธ ๋ชจ์์ด์๋ค.
A footstep came near the door, then retreated.
๋ฐ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ฌธ ๊ทผ์ฒ๊น์ง ์๋ค๊ฐ ๋ฉ์ด์ก๋ค.
Anfield beyond the walls had emptied into traffic and chants fading down streets.
๋ฒฝ ๋๋จธ์ ์ํ๋๋ ์ด์ ๊ตํต ์ฒด์ฆ๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ก ํฉ์ด์ง๋ ์์๊ฐ ์๋ฆฌ๋ง ๋จ๊ธด ์ฑ ๋น์์ง๊ณ ์์๋ค.
The room no longer belonged to the match.
์ด ๋ฐฉ์ ๋ ์ด์ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๋ถ๊ฐ ์๋์๋ค.
It belonged to the aftermath of a private promise made public by impact.
์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ผ๋ก ์ธํด ๋ง์ฒํ์ ๋๋ฌ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฐ, ์ง๊ทนํ ์ฌ์ ์ธ ์ฝ์์ ์ํด๋ค์ด ๋จธ๋ฌด๋ ๊ณณ์ด์๋ค.
Callan's shoulders lowered a fraction.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์ด๊นจ๊ฐ ์์ฃผ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ด๋ ค์์๋ค.
Not relaxation. Fatigue claiming its tax.
๊ธด์ฅ์ด ํ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ ์๋๋ผ, ํผ๋ก๊ฐ ๋ชฐ๋ ค์จ ๊ฒ์ด์๋ค.
The post-match heat that had carried him into the confrontation was beginning to leave, and what it uncovered was not gentler.
๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ด ๋์น ์ํฉ์ผ๋ก ๋ชฐ์๋ฃ์๋ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ ์ด๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์์ด๊ฐ๊ณ ์์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ ์๋ ๋๋ฌ๋ ์ง์ค์ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ ๋ถ๋๋ฝ์ง ์์๋ค.
His eyes looked rawer for the absence of the first blaze.
์ฒ์์ ๋ถ๊ธธ์ด ์ฆ์๋ค์ ๊ทธ์ ๋๋์๋ ์คํ๋ ค ๋ ์ฒ์ฐธํด ๋ณด์๋ค.
He had not showered properly; one curl of dark hair stuck near his temple with sweat.
์ ๋๋ก ์ป์ง๋ ๋ชปํ ํ์ ๊ณฑ์ฌ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ฝ ํ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ด ๋์ ์ ์ด ๊ด์๋์ด์ ๋ถ์ด ์์๋ค.
His fists had begun to shake very slightly, not from fear.
๊ทธ์ ์ฃผ๋จน์ด ์์ฃผ ๋ฏธ์ธํ๊ฒ ๋จ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค. ๊ณตํฌ ๋๋ฌธ์ด ์๋์๋ค.
Noah watched the tremor and did not mention it.
๋ ธ์๋ ๊ทธ ๋จ๋ฆผ์ ์ง์ผ๋ณด๋ฉด์๋ ์ธ๊ธํ์ง ์์๋ค.
Once, at seventeen, he would have used such a detail.
์ด์ผ๊ณฑ ์ด ๋๋ผ๋ฉด ์ด๋ฐ ์ธ์ธํ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ด์ฉํ์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
At twenty-five, newly crowned, blood in his mouth, he recognized the appetite and laid it aside for the moment as one lays a knife on a table within reach but unused.
ํ์ง๋ง ์ค๋ฌผ๋ค์ฏ, ์์๋ฅผ ๋ฌผ๋ ค๋ฐ๊ณ ์ ์์ ํผ๋ฅผ ๋จธ๊ธ์ ์ง๊ธ์ ๊ทธ๋, ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์๋ง์ ์์์ฐจ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ ์ ์ ์ ์ด๋์๋ค. ๋ง์น ์ ๋ฟ๋ ๊ณณ์ ์นผ์ ๋๋ ์ฐ์ง๋ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ.
"Why didn't you send someone else?"
Callan asked.
"Sean. Hayley. Halewick. Anyone."
"์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ๋ณด๋์ด?"
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋ฌผ์๋ค.
"์์ด๋ ํค์ผ๋ฆฌ, ํ ์ , ๋๊ตฌ๋ผ๋."
"Halewick was bought away from my service within six months,"
Noah said.
"Not cheaply. Not willingly at first. Mrs. Hayley was threatened through her son's debts. Sean was watched less because my father did not think him central, and more because he was close to you. Anyone I sent risked becoming useful leverage against the person receiving the message."
"ํ ์ ์ 6๊ฐ์๋ ์ ๋ผ์ ๋งค์๋นํ์ด."
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
"์ธ์ง๋ ์์๊ณ , ์ฒ์์ ๋ณธ์ธ๋ ์์น ์์์ง๋ง. ํค์ผ๋ฆฌ ๋ถ์ธ์ ์๋ค์ ๋น์ผ๋ก ํ๋ฐ๋นํ๊ณ . ์์ ์๋ฒ์ง๊ฐ ์ค์ ์ธ๋ฌผ๋ก ๋ณด์ง ์์์ ๊ฐ์๋ ๋ ๋นํ์ง๋ง, ๋์ ๋ค ๊ณ์ ์์์ผ๋๊น. ๋ด๊ฐ ๋๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ด๋ , ๊ทธ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ํ๋ฐํ ์์ฃผ ์ข์ ๋ฏธ๋ผ๊ฐ ๋์ ๊ฑฐ์ผ."
Callan's eyes cut toward the door at Sean's name, then back.
์์ ์ด๋ฆ์ด ๋์ค์ ์บ๋ฐ์ ์์ ์ด ๋ฌธ ์ชฝ์ ํฅํ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ค์ ๋์์๋ค.
"So you decided I'd rather think you'd vanished."
"๊ทธ๋์ ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ฆ๋ฐํด ๋ฒ๋ ธ๋ค๊ณ ๋ฏฟ๊ฒ ๋ด๋ฒ๋ ค ๋๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค๊ณ ?"
"No."
The word came too quickly. It was the first one that did.
"์๋."
๋๋ต์ด ๋๋ฌด ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ํ์ด๋์๋ค. ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ํ์ ์ฌ์ ์์ ๋๋ต์ด์๋ค.
Noah corrected by stillness, but the break had happened. Callan caught it.
๋ ธ์๋ ๋ค์ ์นจ๋ฌตํ๋ฉฐ ์์ตํ๋ ค ํ์ง๋ง, ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ท ์ด์ ์๊ฒผ๊ณ ์บ๋ฐ์ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๋์น์ง ์์๋ค.
"No?"
"์๋๋ผ๊ณ ?"
"No,"
Noah repeated, lower.
"I decided very little for some time. That was part of the design."
"์๋์ผ."
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๋ ๋ฎ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ก ๋ฐ๋ณตํ๋ค.
"ํ๋์์ ๋ด๊ฐ ๊ฒฐ์ ํ ์ ์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฑฐ์ ์์์ด. ๊ทธ๊ฒ๋ ๋ค ๊ณํ์ ์ผ๋ถ์์ผ๋๊น."
Callan frowned.
"What's that supposed to mean."
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋ฏธ๊ฐ์ ์ฐํธ๋ ธ๋ค.
"๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ฌด์จ ์๋ฆฌ์ผ."
Noah looked at the ruined flowers.
๋ ธ์๋ ๋ง๊ฐ์ง ๊ฝ๋ค์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์๋ค.
One pink peony head had collapsed inward, its petals folded around a bruised centre.
๋ถํ์ ์์ฝ ํ ์ก์ด๊ฐ ์์ผ๋ก ๊บพ์ฌ, ๋ฉ๋ ๊ฝ์ ์ ๊ฝ์๋ค์ด ๊ฐ์ธ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
He could have described the first months with elegant economy and made them survivable in speech.
์ฒ์ ๋ช ๋ฌ๊ฐ์ ์ผ์ ์์ฃผ ์ฐ์ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ฒฐํ๊ฒ ์ค๋ช ํด์, ๋ง๋ก ๋ด๋ฑ์ด๋ ๊ฒฌ๋ ๋งํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ค ์๋ ์์๋ค.
Solitary confinement had such a clean sound.
'๋ ๋ฐฉ ๊ฐ๊ธ'์ ์ฐธ ๊น๋ํ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ ๋จ์ด๋ค.
Sedation sounded medical.
'์ง์ ์ ํฌ์ฌ'๋ ์ํ์ ์ธ ์ฉ์ด์ฒ๋ผ ๋ค๋ฆฐ๋ค.
Legal incapacity sounded like a document rather than a period in which his own signature had been contested by men who wished his mind declared unreliable because his will had proved inconvenient.
'๋ฒ์ ๋ฌด๋ฅ๋ ฅ ์ํ'๋ผ๋ ๋ง์, ์์ ์ ์์ง๊ฐ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์๊ฒ ๋ถํธํ๋ค๋ ์ด์ ๋ก ์ ์ ์ด ์จ์ ์น ๋ชปํ๋ค๊ณ ์ ์ธํ๋ ค๋ ์๋ค์๊ฒ ์๋ช ์ ๋ถ์ ๋นํ๋ ๊ทธ ๋์ฐํ ์๊ฐ๋ณด๋ค๋ ์ฐจ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์๋ฅ์์ ์ฉ์ด์ฒ๋ผ ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค.
None of those words belonged whole in this bright room, not yet.
๊ทธ ์ด๋ค ๋จ์ด๋ ์ด ๋ฐ์ ๋ฐฉ ์์๋ ์ด์ธ๋ฆฌ์ง ์์๋ค. ์ ์ด๋ ์ง๊ธ์.
Callan had asked what it meant. That was smaller than the whole and therefore possible.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ฌด์จ ๋ป์ธ์ง ๋ฌผ์๋ค. ์ ์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋งํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ๊ทธ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋งํ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ ์ฌ์ ๋ค.
"It means there were periods in which reaching you was not a question of courage,"
Noah said.
"Or ingenuity. There are conditions under which a man can be made very occupied by remaining intact."
"๋ํํ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ ๊ฒ ์ฉ๊ธฐ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฐํจ์ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ์๋์๋ ์๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์์๋ค๋ ๋ป์ด์ผ."
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
"์ฌ๋์ด ๊ทธ์ '์จ์ ํ ์ํ'๋ฅผ ์ ์งํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ง์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ฒ ์ฐจ๊ฒ ๋ง๋๋ ํ๊ฒฝ๋ค์ด ์๊ฑฐ๋ ."
Callan's face went still in a new way.
์บ๋ฐ์ ํ์ ์ด ๋ฌํ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ผ์์๋ค.
He did not soften.
๋ถ๋๋ฌ์์ง ๊ฑด ์๋์๋ค.
Softening would have been easier for Noah to bear.
์ฐจ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๋ถ๋๋ฌ์์ก๋ค๋ฉด ๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๊ฒฌ๋๊ธฐ ๋ ์ฌ์ ์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
Instead, Callan looked at him with the ferocious suspicion of someone being handed suffering he had not asked to pity and would not allow to absolve.
๋์ ์บ๋ฐ์, ๋์ ํด๋ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ๊ตฌ๊ฑธํ์ง๋ ์์๊ณ ๋ฉด์ฃ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋์ง๋ ์์ ๊ณ ํต์ ๋ ์๊ฒ ๋ ์ฌ๋ ํน์ ์ ์ง๋ ํ ์์ฌ์ ๋ด์ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์๋ค.
"You sayin' that so I don't hit you again?"
"๋ํํ ๋ ์ ๋ง์ผ๋ ค๊ณ ๊ทธ๋ด ์๋ฆฌ ํ๋ ๊ฑฐ์ผ?"
"No."
"์๋."
"Wouldn't work."
"์ด์ฐจํผ ์ ํตํด."
"I know."
"์์."
Callan held his gaze a beat longer than was comfortable.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๋ถํธํ ์ ๋๋ก ์ค๋ซ๋์ ๋ ธ์์ ๋์ ๋นคํ ์ณ๋ค๋ณด์๋ค.
"Good."
"์ข์."
The word landed between them without forgiveness.
๊ทธ ๋ง์ ์ฉ์ ์๋ ์ ๊ณ ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ ์ฌ๋ ์ฌ์ด์ ๋จ์ด์ก๋ค.
Noah accepted it.
๋ ธ์๋ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๋ฐ์๋ค์๋ค.
His cheek throbbed where Callan had struck him, and in the throb was an absurd gratitude he would not insult either of them by naming.
์บ๋ฐ์๊ฒ ๋ง์ ๋บจ์ด ์ฑ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ํต์ฆ ์์๋ ์ฐจ๋ง ์ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋ด์ด ์๋ก๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์ํ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฌํ ๊ฐ์ฌํจ์ด ์์ฌ ์์๋ค.
Payment did not settle debt. It only proved the creditor remained alive.
๋๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์น๋ฅธ๋ค๊ณ ๋น์ด ์ฌ๋ผ์ง๋ ๊ฑด ์๋๋ค. ๊ทธ์ ์ฑ๊ถ์๊ฐ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ด์์์์ ์ฆ๋ช ํ ๋ฟ์ด๋ค.
Callan's hand at the collar loosened further.
๋ฉฑ์ด์ ์ฅ ์บ๋ฐ์ ์์ ํ์ด ๋ ๋น ์ก๋ค.
The coat slid half an inch down Noah's shoulder, and with the loosened hold came the first actual measure of their bodies in the room.
์ฝํธ๊ฐ ๋ ธ์์ ์ด๊นจ ์๋๋ก ์ด์ง ํ๋ฌ๋ด๋ ธ๊ณ , ์๊ธธ์ด ๋์จํด์ง์ ๋น๋ก์ ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ค๊ฐ ๋ฌ๋ค.
Callan was still taller, though less decisively than memory had kept him.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋ ์ปธ์ง๋ง, ๊ธฐ์ต ์์ ๋ฐํ ์๋ ์๋์ ์ธ ์ฐจ์ด๋ ์๋์๋ค.
Broader by a margin that five years of elite sport had made almost indecent.
5๋ ๊ฐ ์๋ฆฌํธ ์คํฌ์ธ ๋ก ๋ค์ ธ์ง ๊ทธ์ ์ฒด๊ฒฉ์ ๋นํ์ค์ ์ผ ๋งํผ ๋ค๋ถ์ก๋ค.
Noah was no longer the slender seventeen-year-old who could be enveloped by a footballer's anger and enjoy the danger privately.
๋ ธ์ ์ญ์ ๋ ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์ ์์ ๋ถ๋ ธ์ ํฉ์ธ์ฌ ๊ทธ ์ํ์ ๋จ๋ชฐ๋ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋ ๊ฐ๋ํ ์ด์ผ๊ณฑ ์๋ ์ด ์๋์๋ค.
He stood nearly level now, narrower in frame but not fragile, the new height and title sitting on him like different versions of the same inherited weapon.
๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋๋ฑํ ๋์ด๋ก ์ ์์๋ค. ๊ณจ๊ฒฉ์ ๋ ๊ฐ๋์์ง๋ง ๊ฒฐ์ฝ ์ฐ์ฝํด ๋ณด์ด์ง ์์๊ณ , ์๋ก ์ป์ ํค์ ์์๋ ๋ง์น ๋ฌผ๋ ค๋ฐ์ ๋ฌด๊ธฐ์ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ํํ์ฒ๋ผ ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ์ด์ธ๋ ธ๋ค.
Callan seemed to notice it at the same time.
์บ๋ฐ๋ ๋์์ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์ ๋ฏํ๋ค.
His gaze moved, unwilling and fast, from Noah's shoulders to his throat, to the line of the overcoat and back to his face.
๊ทธ์ ์์ ์ด ๋ ธ์์ ์ด๊นจ์์ ๋ชฉ์ผ๋ก, ์ฝํธ ๋ผ์ธ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ํ๊ณ ๋ ๋ค์ ์ผ๊ตด๋ก ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ฎ๊ฒจ๊ฐ๋ค.
"You grew,"
Callan said, as if accusing him of another secrecy.
"์ปธ๋ค."
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋ง์น ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋น๋ฐ์ด๋ผ๋ ๋ค์ถฐ๋ด๋ฏ ๋งํ๋ค.
"Yes."
"๊ทธ๋."
"Prison feed you well, did it?"
"๊ฐ์ฅ ๋ฐฅ์ด ์ ์ ์ ๋ง์๋ ๋ณด์ง?"
"No."
"์๋."
Callan's mouth twitched before he could stop it.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์์ฐ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ค.
Not amusement exactly. Reflex finding its old track and hating the track for existing.
์ฆ๊ฑฐ์์๊ฐ ์๋์๋ค. ๋ชธ์ ๋ฐด ์ต๊ด์ด ์์ ์ ๊ถค์ ์ ์ฐพ์๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์ต๊ด์ด ์ฌ์ ํ ๋จ์ ์๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ ์ค์ค๋ก ์ง์ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์น๋ ๊ฒ์ด์๋ค.
"Still answerin' like a cunt."
"๋๋ตํ๋ ๊ผฌ๋ฝ์๋๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ฌ์ ์๋ค."
"I am trying to be concise."
"๊ฐ๊ฒฐํ๊ฒ ๋งํ๋ ค๊ณ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ ์ค์ด์ผ."
"Try harder."
"๋ ๋ ธ๋ ฅํด ๋ด."
Noah lowered his eyes for one brief moment.
๋ ธ์๋ ์ ์ ๋์ ๋ด๋ฆฌ๊น์๋ค.
The smile that threatened him then was not happiness.
๊ทธ๋ ๋น์ง๊ณ ๋์ค๋ ค๋ ๋ฏธ์๋ ํ๋ณตํด์๊ฐ ์๋์๋ค.
It was recognition too old to have died properly.
์ ๋๋ก ์ฃฝ์ง ๋ชปํ ์ฑ ์ด์๋จ์, ๋๋ฌด๋ ์ค๋๋ ์ต์ํจ ๋๋ฌธ์ด์๋ค.
"That would make me less concise."
"๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฐํด์ง ํ ๋ฐ."
Callan shoved him once, not hard enough to hurt this time, but enough to put distance back between them before any more of the old rhythm could gather.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ํ ๋ฒ ๋ฐ์ณค๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ์ ์ํ์ง ์์์ง๋ง, ์์ ์ ๋ฆฌ๋ฌ์ด ๋ค์ ์ด์๋๊ธฐ ์ ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋๊ธฐ์ ์ถฉ๋ถํ๋ค.
Noah's back met the sponsor board again with a quieter sound.
๋ ธ์์ ๋ฑ์ด ๋ค์ ์คํฐ์ ๋ณด๋์ ๋ฟ์ผ๋ฉฐ ์์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋๋ค.
The ring swung against Callan's chest and settled.
๋ฐ์ง๊ฐ ์บ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ดํ์์ ํ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ค ๋ฉ์ท๋ค.
The cord had left a red line at the side of his neck from being dragged out so sharply.
๊ฑฐ์น ๊ฒ ๋์ด๋น๊ฒจ์ง ํ์ ๊ทธ์ ๋ชฉ ์์๋ ๋ถ์ ์ค์ด ๋จ์๋ค.
"Don't,"
Callan said, and the word came out tired.
"ํ์ง ๋ง."
์บ๋ฐ์ด ์ง์น ๊ธฐ์์ผ๋ก ๋ฑ์๋ค.
Noah nodded once. It cost more than a clever answer.
๋ ธ์๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์๋ค. ๊ทธ ์ด๋ค ์ฌ์น ์๋ ๋๋ต๋ณด๋ค ๋ ํฐ ๋๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์น๋ฅด๋ ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด์๋ค.
"All right."
"์์์ด."
That, too, altered the room.
๊ทธ ๋ง ํ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐฉ ์์ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ ๋ณํ๋ค.
Callan looked at him sharply, as if obedience in that register were unfamiliar enough to be suspect.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์์ ์์ข ์ด ๋๋ฌด๋ ๋ฏ์ค์ด ์์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๋ค๋ ๋ฏ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ ์นด๋กญ๊ฒ ์ณ๋ค๋ณด์๋ค.
Perhaps it was.
์๋ง ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
Noah had often allowed refusal where he had already arranged the alternatives.
๋ ธ์๋ ๋ ๋์์ ๋ง๋ จํด ๋ ์ํ์์ ๊ฑฐ์ ์ ํ์ฉํ๊ณค ํ์ผ๋๊น.
He had not often simply stopped.
๊ทธ๋ฅ ๋ฉ์ถ๋ ๋ฒ์ ๊ฑฐ์ ์์๋ค.
He felt the old machinery in himself continue to run beneath the silence, offering angles: mention the ring; mention the car; ask whether he kept the manor; use the visible facts of waiting to pull Callan nearer.
์นจ๋ฌต ์๋์์ ๋ ธ์์ ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์์ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ด ์ ์์ด ๋์๊ฐ๋ฉฐ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ํ๋ค. ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ์ธ๊ธํ ๊น, ์ฐจ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ ๊น, ์ ํ์ ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋์ง ๋ฌผ์ด๋ณผ๊น. ์บ๋ฐ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค์จ ํ์ ๋ค์ ์ด์ฉํด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๋์ด๋น๊ธธ ์๋ ์์๋ค.
Each option had the elegance of cruelty wearing a good coat.
๋ชจ๋ ์ ํ์ง๊ฐ ์ข์ ์ฝํธ๋ฅผ ์ฐจ๋ ค์ ์ ์์ธํจ์ฒ๋ผ ๋งค๋๋ฌ์ ๋ค.
He let them pass.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ๋ค์ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ํ๋ ค๋ณด๋๋ค.
Not from virtue. From timing.
๋๋์ฌ ๋๋ฌธ์ด ์๋๋ผ, ํ์ด๋ฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด์๋ค.
Callan bent and picked up one of the fallen peonies without looking away from him.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๋ ธ์์๊ฒ์ ๋์ ๋ผ์ง ์์ ์ฑ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์์ฌ ๋จ์ด์ง ์์ฝ ํ ์ก์ด๋ฅผ ์ง์ด ๋ค์๋ค.
The flower was crushed at one side where their bodies had pinned it.
๋ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ชธ ์ฌ์ด์ ๋ผ์ด ํ์ชฝ์ด ์ง๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฝ์ด์๋ค.
Pink petals had darkened at the edges from pressure.
์๋ฐ์ ๋ฐ์ ๋ถํ์ ๊ฝ์์ ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ด ๊ฒ๊ฒ ๋ณํด ์์๋ค.
He held it by the broken stem, examined it as if it were evidence, then threw it onto the interview table with the others.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ถ๋ฌ์ง ์ค๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ก๊ณ ๋ง์น ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋ฌผ์ ์ดํผ๋ฏ ๊ฝ์ ๋ณด๋๋, ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ฝ๋ค์ด ๋๋ธ๋ฌ์ง ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ ํ ์ด๋ธ ์๋ก ๋์ ธ๋ฒ๋ ธ๋ค.
"You really thought flowers."
"์ง์ง ๊ฝ์ด๋ฉด ๋ค ๋ ์ค ์์๋."
"I thought you might hit me if I came empty-handed."
"๋น์์ผ๋ก ์ค๋ฉด ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ ๋๋ฆด ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์."
"I hit you because you're you."
"๋ค๊ฐ ๋๋๊น ๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฑฐ์ผ."
"Yes,"
Noah said.
"But the flowers helped."
"์์."
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
"๊ทธ๋๋ ๊ฝ์ด ๋์์ด ๋๋ค."
Callan stared at him.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋นคํ ๋ณด์๋ค.
Then, very briefly, a sound escaped himโhalf a laugh, half an exhale struck out of the chest by disbelief.
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋๋ ์์ฃผ ์งง๊ฒ, ํ์์์ธ์ง ํ์จ์ธ์ง ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๊ทธ์ ๊ฐ์ด์์ ํฐ์ ธ ๋์๋ค.
It was gone almost at once, buried under anger returning to cover the exposed place.
๊ทธ ์๋ฆฌ๋ ๋๋ฌ๋ ์ง์ฌ์ ๋ฎ์ผ๋ ค ๋ค์ ๋ชฐ๋ ค์จ ๋ถ๋ ธ ์๋ ๊ธ๋ฐฉ ๋ฌปํ๋ฒ๋ ธ๋ค.
He dragged a hand over his mouth, caught the edge of his own cut brow by accident, and winced.
๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ฒ ๋ฌธ์ง๋ฅด๋ค ์ค์๋ก ์ฐข์ด์ง ๋์น ๋์ ๊ฑด๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ ์์ฐํ๋ค.
Noah's fingers moved before he permitted them to stop.
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ์ ์งํ๊ธฐ๋ ์ ์ ์๊ฐ๋ฝ์ด ๋จผ์ ์์ง์๋ค.
Callan saw it.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๋ณด์๋ค.
"Don't fucking fuss."
"์จ๋ฐ, ์ ๋ ๋จ์ง ๋ง."
"I was not."
"์ ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ด."
"You were about to."
"๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ค๊ณ ํ์์."
"Yes."
"๊ทธ๋."
The honesty irritated him more safely than the lies had.
๊ทธ ์ ์งํจ์ ๊ฑฐ์ง๋ง๋ณด๋ค ํจ์ฌ ๋ ์์ ํ๊ฒ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์๊ทนํ๋ค.
He turned away a step, then stopped because turning his back fully would concede too much or risk too much.
๊ทธ๋ ํ ๊ฑธ์ ๋ฌผ๋ฌ๋ ๋ชธ์ ๋๋ฆฌ๋ ค๋ค ๋ฉ์ท๋ค. ์์ ํ ๋ฑ์ ๋๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ฌด ๋ง์ ๊ฒ์ ์๋ณดํ๊ฑฐ๋, ํน์ ๋๋ฌด ํฐ ์ํ์ ๊ฐ์ํ๋ ์ผ์ด์๊ธฐ์.
His hand stayed on the ring.
๊ทธ์ ์์ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ์ฅ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
The black cord stretched from his fist to the back of his neck.
๊ฒ์ ์ค์ด ๊ทธ์ ์ฃผ๋จน์์ ๋ชฉ ๋ค๊น์ง ํฝํฝํ๊ฒ ๋น๊ฒจ์ก๋ค.
"You married?"
"๊ฒฐํผํ๋?"
"No."
"์๋."
"Engaged?"
"์ฝํผ์?"
"No."
"์ ํ์ด."
"Fuck anyone?"
"๋๊ตฌ๋ ์ค์ด?"
The question came abrupt and ugly, thrown like a bottle because tenderness had come too close under another name.
๋ค์ ํจ์ด ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ด๋ฆ์ ๋น๋ ค ๋๋ฌด ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๋ค๊ฐ์ค์, ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์นด๋กญ๊ณ ์ถํ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ณ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ด๋์ก๋ค.
Noah's eyes stayed on him.
๋ ธ์์ ์์ ์ ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ๊ณ ์ ๋์ด ์์๋ค.
Five years gave any answer a history large enough to be vulgar if displayed carelessly.
5๋ ์ด๋ผ๋ ์๊ฐ์ ์ด๋ค ๋๋ต์ด๋ ํจ๋ถ๋ก ๋ด๋ณด์๋ค๊ฐ ์ ์ํด์ง ๋งํผ ๋ฐฉ๋ํ ์ญ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์์๋ค.
The honest one was neither flattering nor cruel in the way Callan expected.
ํ์ง๋ง ์์งํ ๋๋ต์ ์บ๋ฐ์ด ์์ํ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ์์ฒจํ๋ ๊ฒ๋, ์์ธํ ๊ฒ๋ ์๋์๋ค.
"No one who mattered."
"์๋ฏธ ์๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์๋ฌด๋ ์์์ด."
Callan's lip curled.
"That's not no."
์บ๋ฐ์ ์ ์ ์ด ๋ง๋ ค ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ๋ค.
"'์๋'๋ผ๋ ์๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋๋ค."
"No."
"๊ทธ๋ ์ง."
He laughed once.
"Course."
๊ทธ๊ฐ ํ ๋ฒ ์์๋ค.
"๋น์ฐํ๊ฒ ์ง."
"Were you?"
Noah asked.
"๋๋?"
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๋ฌผ์๋ค.
Callan's eyes flashed.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๋์ด ๋ฒ๋ฉ์๋ค.
The old right to answer a question with injury returned to him as if it had waited behind his teeth all these years.
์ง๋ฌธ์ ์์ฒ๋ก ๋ตํ ์ ์๋ ๊ทธ ์ค๋๋ ๊ถ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ, ๋ง์น ์ง๋ ์ธ์ ๋์ ๊ทธ์ ์ด๋นจ ๋ค์์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค์จ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋์ด์๋ฌ๋ค.
"That what you want? List? Women? Men? How many? Whether they knew how to do it right?"
"๊ทธ๊ฒ ๊ถ๊ธํด? ๋ช ๋จ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ค๊น? ์ฌ์? ๋จ์? ๋ช ๋ช ์ด๋ ๋๋์ง? ๊ทธ๋ค์ด ์ ๋๋ก ํ ์ค์ ์์๋์ง?"
Noah did not let his gaze drop to the ring.
๋ ธ์๋ ์์ ์ ๋ฐ์ง๋ก ๋๋ฆฌ์ง ์์๋ค.
"I want the truth only if you wish to give it."
"๋ค๊ฐ ๋งํ๊ณ ์ถ์ ๋๋ง ์ง์ค์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ถ์ด."
"Bullshit."
"๊ฐ์๋ฆฌ ํ๋ค."
"Yes,"
Noah said quietly.
"Partly."
"๊ทธ๋."
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ์กฐ์ฉํ ๋งํ๋ค.
"์ด๋ ์ ๋๋."
The admission moved through Callan's face like bad weather.
๊ทธ ์ธ์ ์ด ์บ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ๊ถ์ ๋ ์จ์ฒ๋ผ ํ๊ณ ์ง๋๊ฐ๋ค.
For a moment he looked nearly pleased by the wound he could make and disgusted by the wish to make it.
์ ์ ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ ์์ฒ๋ฅผ ์ ํ ์ ์๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ ๊ธฐ๋ปํ๋ฉด์๋, ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์๋ง์ ํ์ ์์ ์๊ฒ ํ์ค๊ฐ์ ๋๋ผ๋ ๋ฏ ๋ณด์๋ค.
"Plenty,"
he said.
"There. Truth. Fucked plenty."
"๋ง์ด ์ค์ด."
๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋ฑ์๋ค.
"์, ์ง์ค์ด๋ค. ์์ฃผ ๋ง์ด ์ค๋ค๊ณ ."
Noah inclined his head.
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์๋ค.
The inside of his cheek had begun to clot.
๋ณผ ์์ชฝ์ ํผ๊ฐ ๋ฉ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
Speaking pulled at it.
๋ง์ ํ ๋๋ง๋ค ์์ฒ๊ฐ ๋น๊ฒผ๋ค.
"Good."
"๋คํ์ด๋ค."
Callan's anger sharpened, baffled by the answer.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๋ถ๋ ธ๊ฐ ๋นํน๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋ ์นด๋ก์์ก๋ค.
"Good?"
"๋คํ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ?"
"You were alive."
"๋ค๊ฐ ์ด์ ์์์ผ๋๊น."
"Don't make it noble."
"๊ณ ๊ฒฐํ ์ฒ ํฌ์ฅํ์ง ๋ง."
"I am not."
"์ ๊ทธ๋."
"You're makin' it something."
"์ง๊ธ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๊ณ ์์์."
Noah looked at him then with less armor than he intended.
๋ ธ์๋ ์๋ํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ํจ์ฌ ๋ฌด๋ฐฉ๋นํ ํ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์๋ค.
"I am glad you were touched by someone whose hands were not mine and did not die from it."
"๋ด ์์ด ์๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์ ์จ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ผ๋ฉด์๋, ๋ค๊ฐ ์ฃฝ์ง ์๊ณ ์ด์๋จ์ ์ค์ ๋คํ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํด."
The sentence entered the room and found no immediate place to stand.
๊ทธ ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ ๋ฐฉ ์์ ๋จ์ด์ก์ง๋ง, ์ด๋์๋ ์์ฐฉํ์ง ๋ชปํ ์ฑ ๋งด๋์๋ค.
Callan looked away first.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋จผ์ ์์ ์ ๋๋ ธ๋ค.
Not far. Only to the table, the ruined bouquet, the microphone on the floor with its green light now dark.
๋ฉ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์ง๋ ๋ชปํ๋ค. ๊ทธ์ ํ ์ด๋ธ๊ณผ ๋ง๊ฐ์ง ๋ถ์ผ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด์ ๋ ๋ถ์ด ๊บผ์ง ์ฑ ๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ๊ตด๋ฌ๋ค๋๋ ๋ง์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ํฅํ์ ๋ฟ์ด์๋ค.
His throat moved.
๊ทธ์ ๋ชฉ์ธ๋๊ฐ ์์ง์๋ค.
The ring rested against the red kit, caught in the shallow dip below the collarbone, no longer hidden but not offered.
๋ฐ์ง๋ ๋ถ์ ์ ๋ํผ ์, ์๊ณจ ์๋ ์์ ํ์ ๊ฑธ๋ ค ์์๋ค. ๋ ์ด์ ์จ๊ฒจ์ ธ ์์ง๋ ์์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค๊ณ ๋ด์ค ๊ฒ๋ ์๋์๋ค.
"Didn't feel like that,"
he said, so low Noah almost did not hear it.
"๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ถ ์๋์์ด."
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋ฃ์ง ๋ชปํ ์ ๋๋ก ๋ฎ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ์๋ค.
Noah's hand closed at his side.
๋ ธ์์ ์ฃผ๋จน์ ํ์ด ๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋ค.
Callan seemed to realize he had spoken.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์์ ์ด ๋ง์ ๋ด๋ฑ์๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์ ๋ฏํ๋ค.
His face hardened at once, anger rushing back to repair the breach.
๊ทธ์ ์ผ๊ตด์ด ์ฆ์ ๊ตณ์ด์ก๋ค. ๊ฐ๋ผ์ง ํ์ ๋ฉ์ฐ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋ถ๋ ธ๊ฐ ๋ค์ ๋ชฐ๋ ค์๋ค.
"Forget it."
"์์ด๋ฒ๋ ค."
"No."
"์ซ์ด."
Callan looked up.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ค์๋ค.
"I will not,"
Noah said.
"์ ์์ ๊ฑฐ์ผ."
๋ ธ์๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
The next silence had more peril than the shouting.
๋ค์์ ์ฐพ์์จ ์นจ๋ฌต์ ๊ณ ํจ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ์ํ๋ก์ ๋ค.
Callan took one step toward him, but slowly now, without the first assault's velocity.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ํ ๊ฑธ์ ๋ค๊ฐ์๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ์ ์ฒ์ ๋ฌ๋ ค๋ค ๋์ฒ๋ผ ๋น ๋ฅด์ง ์๊ณ ์ฒ์ฒํ์๋ค.
He stopped close enough for Noah to see the sweat dried in salt at his temple and the small bruise beginning at the knuckle that had struck him.
๋ ธ์๋ ์บ๋ฐ์ ๊ด์๋์ด์ ์๊ธ๊ธฐ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ง๋ผ๋ถ์ ๋๊ณผ, ์์ ์ ๋๋ฆฐ ์๊ฐ๋ฝ ๋ง๋์ ์๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์์ํ ์์ ๋ฉ์ ๋ณผ ์ ์์ ๋งํผ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์์ ๋ฉ์ถฐ ์ฐ๋ค.
The fight had changed places.
์ธ์์ ์ฅ์๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋์ด ์์๋ค.
It no longer knew whether to live in the fists or the mouth.
์ด์ ์ด ์ธ์์ด ์ฃผ๋จน์ ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋ฌ์ผ ํ ์ง, ์ ์ ์ ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋ฌ์ผ ํ ์ง ๊ฐํผ๋ฅผ ์ก์ง ๋ชปํ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
"You don't get to come back and remember things,"
Callan said.
"๋ค ๋ง์๋๋ก ๋์์์ ์๋ ์ผ์ ๊ธฐ์ตํ ์๊ฒฉ ์์ด."
"I am afraid memory has been one of my more stubborn failures."
"์ํ๊น๊ฒ๋ ๊ธฐ์ต๋ ฅ์ ๋ด๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ง ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊ณ ์ง์ ์ธ ๊ฒฐํจ ์ค ํ๋๋ผ์ ๋ง์ด์ผ."
"Fuck off."
"์ง๋ํ๋ค."
"Yes."
"๊ทธ๋."
Callan closed his eyes for half a second.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ์์ฃผ ์ ๊น ๋์ ๊ฐ์๋ค.
When he opened them, the rage was still there, but exhausted by its own survival.
๋ค์ ๋์ ๋ด์ ๋๋ ๋ถ๋ ธ๋ ์ฌ์ ํ์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ ๋ถ๋ ธ ์์ฒด๊ฐ ์ค์ค๋ก๋ฅผ ์งํฑํ๋๋ผ ์ง์ณ ๋ณด์๋ค.
"Say what happened,"
he said.
"Not all of it. I don't want your fuckin' courtroom speech. Say the shape."
"๋ฌด์จ ์ผ์ด ์์๋์ง ๋งํด."
๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
"๋ค ๋งํ ํ์๋ ์์ด. ๊ทธ ์จ๋ฐ๋์ ๋ฒ์ ์ง์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฑฐ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ถ์ง ์์ผ๋๊น. ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ด๋ค ์์ด์๋์ง๋ง ๋งํด."
Noah took that command as carefully as he would have taken a blade from a child's hand, though Callan was neither child nor harmless.
๋ ธ์๋ ๊ทธ ๋ช ๋ น์ ๋ง์น ์์ด์ ์์์ ์นผ๋ ์ ๊ฑด๋ค๋ฐ๋ฏ ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ฐ์๋ค์๋ค. ์บ๋ฐ์ ์์ด๋ ์๋์๊ณ , ๊ฒฐ์ฝ ๋ฌดํดํ์ง๋ ์์์ง๋ง.
"My father brought me back from France the year I turned twenty. He had prepared accusations before I arrived. I resisted the marriage arrangements, the financial controls, and the physicians he preferred. He had me charged, confined, and later transferred when the first version became inconvenient. He cut every route between us because your uncertainty served him. I used what access I had to money and information to build enough capital and leverage to destroy his control. It took five years. In the spring, I did. The title followed. Today I came here."
"์ค๋ฌด ์ด์ด ๋๋ ํด์ ์๋ฒ์ง๊ฐ ๋ ํ๋์ค์์ ๋ฐ๋ ค์ค์ จ์ด. ๋ด๊ฐ ๋์ฐฉํ๊ธฐ๋ ์ ์ ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ณ ๋ฐ ์๋ฅ๋ค์ ์ค๋นํด ๋์ จ๋๊ตฐ. ๋ ์ ๋ต๊ฒฐํผ๊ณผ ์ฌ์ ์ ํต์ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๋ฒ์ง๊ฐ ๋ถ์ฌ์ค ์์ฌ๋ค์ ๊ฑฐ๋ถํ์ด. ์๋ฒ์ง๋ ๋ ๊ธฐ์ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ธํ๊ณ , ์ํฉ์ด ์ฌ์์น ์์์ง์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ณณ์ผ๋ก ์ฎ๊ธฐ์ จ์ง. ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ถ์ํดํ๋ ๊ฒ ์๋ฒ์งํํ ์ ๋ฆฌํ์ผ๋๊น ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฌ์ด์ ๋ชจ๋ ํต๋ก๋ฅผ ๋์ผ์ จ์ด. ๋ ๋ด๊ฐ ์ ๊ทผํ ์ ์๋ ๋๊ณผ ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ด์ฉํด์ ์๋ฒ์ง์ ํต์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ฌด๋๋จ๋ฆด ์๋ณธ๊ณผ ์๋จ์ ๋ชจ์์ด. 5๋ ์ด ๊ฑธ๋ ธ์ง. ์ฌ๋ด์ ๋ง์นจ๋ด ์ฑ๊ณตํ๊ณ , ์์๋ฅผ ๋ฌผ๋ ค๋ฐ์์ด. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ค๋ ์ฌ๊ธฐ ์จ ๊ฑฐ์ผ."
Plain statement. No violins. No blood except what already existed.
๋ด๋ดํ ์ง์ ์ด์๋ค. ๊ณผ์ฅ๋ ์ฌํ๋, ์ด๋ฏธ ํ๋ฆฐ ํผ ์ธ์ ๋ ์ด์์ ๋น๊ทน๋ ์์ด์ง ์์๋ค.
Callan listened without moving.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๋ฏธ๋๋ ์์ด ๋ค์๋ค.
At
"your uncertainty served him,"
his jaw tightened.
'๋ค๊ฐ ๋ถ์ํดํ๋ ๊ฒ ์๋ฒ์งํํ ์ ๋ฆฌํ๋ค'๋ ๋๋ชฉ์์ ๊ทธ์ ํฑ ๊ทผ์ฒ ๊ทผ์ก์ด ๊ฟํ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ค.
At
"destroy his control,"
his eyes lifted.
'ํต์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ฌด๋๋จ๋ ธ๋ค'๋ ๋ง์ ๊ทธ์ ์์ ์ด ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ๋ค.
At
"today I came here,"
he looked, unwillingly, at the flowers again.
'์ค๋ ์ฌ๊ธฐ ์๋ค'๋ ๋ง์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ง์ง๋ชปํด ๋ค์ ๊ฝ๋ค์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์๋ค.
Then he rubbed his thumb over the ring's dark stone in a motion so practiced it must have been done hundreds of times without thought.
๊ทธ๋ฌ๊ณ ๋ ๋ฐ์ง์ ์ด๋์ด ๋ณด์ ์๋ฅผ ์์ง์๊ฐ๋ฝ์ผ๋ก ๋ฌธ์ง๋ ๋ค. ์๋ฐฑ ๋ฒ์ ๋ฐ๋ณตํ์ ๋ฒํ, ๋ฌด์์์ค์ ๋์ค๋ ์์ฃผ ์ต์ํ ๋ชธ์ง์ด์๋ค.
"He alive?"
"๊ทธ ์๊ฐํฑ์ด, ์ด์ ์์ด?"
"Yes."
"์."
"Good."
"๋คํ์ด๋ค."
Noah did not ask which part of the word belonged to which desire.
๋ ธ์๋ ๊ทธ '๋คํ'์ด๋ผ๋ ๋ง์ด ์ด๋ค ์๋ง์์ ๋น๋กฏ๋ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง ๋ฌป์ง ์์๋ค.
Callan slipped the ring back under his shirt abruptly, almost violently, as if the open room had looked too long.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๋ง์น ์ด ๋ฐฉ์ด ๋๋ฌด ์ค๋ซ๋์ ์ง์ผ๋ดค๋ค๋ ๋ฏ, ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ์ ๋ํผ ์์ผ๋ก ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ด ๋ฃ์๋ค.
The cord disappeared beneath the collar.
์ค์ด ์ท๊น ์๋๋ก ์ฌ๋ผ์ก๋ค.
Only the red mark across his throat remained.
๊ทธ์ ๋ชฉ์ ๋จ์ ๋ถ์ ์๊ตญ๋ง์ด ๊ทธ ์กด์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ฆ๋ช ํ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
"I should've taken it off."
"๋นผ๋ฒ๋ ธ์ด์ผ ํ๋๋ฐ."
"Yes."
"๊ทธ๋ฌ๊ฒ ์ง."
"I didn't."
"์ ๋บ์ด."
"I saw."
"์์."
"Don't look pleased."
"์ข์ ์ฃฝ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ํ์ ์ง์ง ๋ง."
Noah's expression did not change quickly enough to conceal that he was.
๋ ธ์์ ํ์ ์ ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ ๋ง๋ก ๊ธฐ๋ปํ๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ ์จ๊ธธ ๋งํผ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ณํ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค.
"I am trying not to."
"์ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ค๊ณ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ ์ค์ด์ผ."
"You're shit at it."
"๋๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ชป ํ๋ค."
"Yes."
"๊ทธ๋ฌ๊ฒ."
Callan's mouth bent, and this time the almost-laugh stayed a little longer before it died.
์บ๋ฐ์ ์ ๊ผฌ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํ์ด์ก๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ์๋ ํ์์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ฏธ์๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง๊ธฐ ์ ๊น์ง ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ์ค๋ ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋ ๋ค.
It left him looking worse, not better.
๊ทธ ๋ฏธ์๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ ๋์ ๋ณด์ด๊ฒ ํ๊ธฐ๋์ปค๋ , ์คํ๋ ค ๋ ์ฒ์ฐธํด ๋ณด์ด๊ฒ ํ๋ค.
Five years had not made the old cadence safe; it had made every returned piece of it cut on the way in.
5๋ ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ธ์์ ์์ ์ ๊ทธ ๋ฆฌ๋ฌ์ ์์ ํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ฃผ์ง ์์๋ค. ๋์ฐพ์ ์กฐ๊ฐ ํ๋ํ๋๊ฐ ์ด์ ์ ๋ฒ ์ด๋ด๋ ๊ณ ํต์ ์๋ฐํ๋ค.
He stepped back at last, full distance, and the air came between them cold from the room's ventilation.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ง์นจ๋ด ์์ ํ ๋ค๋ก ๋ฌผ๋ฌ๋ฌ๊ณ , ๋ ์ฌ๋ ์ฌ์ด๋ก ํํ๊ธฐ์์ ๋์ค๋ ์ฐจ๊ฐ์ด ๊ณต๊ธฐ๊ฐ ํ๋ฌ๋ค์๋ค.
Noah stood without his collar in Callan's hands for the first time since the room had emptied.
๋ฐฉ์ด ๋น์์ง ํ ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก, ๋ ธ์๋ ์บ๋ฐ์ ์์๊ท์์ ๋ฒ์ด๋ ํ๋ก ์ฐ๋ค.
The absence of the grip registered physically.
๋ฉฑ์ด์ ์ก๊ณ ์๋ ์๊ธธ์ด ์ฌ๋ผ์ง์ ๊ทธ ๊ณต๋ฐฑ์ด ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋๊ปด์ก๋ค.
His coat hung wrong.
์ฝํธ๋ ์๋ง์ผ๋ก ํํธ๋ฌ์ ธ ์์๋ค.
Blood had dried at one corner of his mouth.
์ ๊ฐ์๋ ํผ๊ฐ ๋ง๋ผ๋ถ์ด ์์๋ค.
The bruise was no longer beginning; it had declared itself.
๋ฉ์ ์ด์ ๋ง ์์๋ ๋จ๊ณ๋ฅผ ์ง๋ ์ ์กด์ฌ๊ฐ์ ๋๋ ท์ด ๋๋ฌ๋ด๊ณ ์์๋ค.
He did not repair his clothes.
๊ทธ๋ ์ท๋งค๋ฌด์๋ฅผ ๋ค๋ฌ์ง ์์๋ค.
Some disarray was owed.
์ด ์ ๋์ ํํธ๋ฌ์ง์ ๋น์ฐํ ๊ฐ์ํด์ผ ํ ๋ชซ์ด์๋ค.
Callan looked him over with a hard, assessing stare.
์บ๋ฐ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ฐจ๊ฐ๊ฒ ํ์ด๋ณด์๋ค.
"You look like shit."
"๊ผด์ด ๋ง์ด ์๋๋ค."
"I have been better received."
"์ด๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ํ์๋ฐ์๋ ์ ๋ ์์๋๋ฐ."
"You deserved worse."
"๋ ๋ ๋นํด๋ ์ธ."
"Yes."
"๋ง์."
"Stop agreein'."
"๊ทธ๋ง ์ข ์๊ธํด."
"No."
"์ซ์ด."
That made Callan look at him again.
๊ทธ ๋ง์ ์บ๋ฐ์ด ๋ค์ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ณ๋ค๋ณด์๋ค.
It was small, almost nothing, but it returned some human proportion to the room.
์ฌ์ํ ๋๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์์ง๋ง, ๋๋ถ์ ๋ฐฉ ์์๋ ๋ค์ ์ธ๊ฐ์ ์ธ ์จ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์กฐ๊ธ์ฉ ๋๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
Not forgiveness. Not yet even the idea of it.
์ฉ์๋ ์๋์๋ค. ์์ง ์ฉ์๋ผ๋ ๋จ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ ์ฌ๋ฆด ๋จ๊ณ์กฐ์ฐจ ์๋์๋ค.
Only a refusal not made of surrender.
๊ทธ์ ๊ตด๋ณตํ์ง ์๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ์์ง๊ฐ ๋ด๊ธด ๊ฑฐ์ ์ผ ๋ฟ์ด์๋ค.
A knock came at the door.
๋ ธํฌ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค.
Sean did not wait for permission before opening it a hand's width.
์์ ํ๋ฝ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ์ง ์๊ณ ๋ฌธ์ ํ ๋ผ ์ ๋ ์ด์๋ค.
His face appeared in the gap, drawn tight with anger and terror and the beginnings of a press strategy that would age him another year by morning.
๋ฌธํ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ธ ๊ทธ์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ๋ถ๋ ธ์ ๊ณตํฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ด์ผ ์์นจ์ด๋ฉด ์์ ์ 1๋ ์ ๋ ๋๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค ์ธ๋ก ๋์ ์ ๋ต์ ๋ํ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ผ๋ก ํฝํฝํ๊ฒ ๊ธด์ฅ๋์ด ์์๋ค.
"Cal. We've got maybe six minutes before this becomes absolutely nuclear, and I need to know whether I'm buryin' a reunion, an assault charge, or both."
"์นผ. ์ํฉ์ด ์์ ํ ํญ๋ฐํ๊ธฐ๊น์ง 6๋ถ ์ ๋ ๋จ์์ด. ๋ด๊ฐ ์ง๊ธ ์ฌํ ์์์ ๋ฌป์ด์ผ ํ๋์ง, ํญํ ํ์๋ฅผ ๋ฌป์ด์ผ ํ๋์ง, ์๋๋ฉด ๋ ๋ค์ธ์ง ๋งํด์ค."
Callan did not look away from Noah.
"Out."
์บ๋ฐ์ ๋ ธ์์๊ฒ์ ๋์ ๋ผ์ง ์์ ์ฑ ๋งํ๋ค.
"๋๊ฐ."
Sean's eyes flicked to Noah's face.
"He's bleeding."
์์ ์์ ์ด ๋ ธ์์ ์ผ๊ตด๋ก ํฅํ๋ค.
"ํผ ํ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์์."
"He can afford blood."
"ํผ ์ข ํ๋ ค๋ ๋๋ ๋์ด์ผ."
Noah said nothing.
๋ ธ์๋ ์นจ๋ฌต์ ์ง์ผฐ๋ค.
Sean inhaled through his nose, found no institution sufficient to help him, and withdrew.
์์ ๊น์ ํ์จ์ ๋ด์ฌ์์ง๋ง, ์์ ์ ๋์์ค ๊ทธ ์ด๋ค ๋ฐฉ์ฑ ๋ ์ฐพ์ง ๋ชปํ ์ฑ ๋ฌผ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ค.
The door clicked shut with exaggerated care.
๋ฌธ์ด ์ง๋์น ์ ๋๋ก ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ซํ๋ค.
Callan stood in the hum afterward, shoulders squared as if before a penalty.
๋ค์ ์ ์ ์ด ์ฐพ์์จ ๋ฐฉ ์์์, ์บ๋ฐ์ ๋ง์น ํ๋ํฐ ํฅ์ ์๋ ์ ์์ฒ๋ผ ์ด๊นจ๋ฅผ ํด๊ณ ์ ์์๋ค.
His body had begun to cool; a faint tremor moved through him now from spent adrenaline and something older.
๋ชธ์ด ์๊ธฐ ์์ํ์, ์๋๋ ๋ ๋ฆฐ์ด ๋น ์ ธ๋๊ฐ ์๋ฆฌ์ ์ค๋๋ ๊ฐ์ ๋ค์ด ๋ค์์ธ ๋ฏธ์ธํ ๋จ๋ฆผ์ด ์ฐพ์์๋ค.
He caught it by folding his arms, then seemed to hate the self-protection and dropped them again.
๊ทธ๋ ํ์งฑ์ ๋ผ์ด ๋จ๋ฆผ์ ์จ๊ธฐ๋ ค๋ค, ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์๊ธฐ๋ฐฉ์ด์ ์ธ ํ๋๊ฐ ์ซ์ฆ ๋ฌ๋์ง ๋ค์ ํ์ ๋ด๋ ธ๋ค.
His gaze went once to Noah's mouth.
๊ทธ์ ์์ ์ด ๋ ธ์์ ์ ์ ๋ก ํฅํ๋ค.
"You need ice,"
he said.
"์ผ์ ์ฐ์งํด์ผ๊ฒ ๋ค."
"Yes."
"์."
"I'm not gettin' it."
"๋ด๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ ธ๋ค์ฃผ์ง ์์ ๊ฑฐ์ผ."
"No."
"์์."
"Good."
"๊ทธ๋."
But he moved before the word had finished settling.
ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ ๋ง์ด ์ฑ ๋๋๊ธฐ๋ ์ ์ ๊ทธ๋ ์์ง์๋ค.
Not to the door.
๋ฌธ ์ชฝ์ด ์๋์๋ค.
To the interview table, where a plastic tub of bottled water and a bucket of melting ice sat beside paper cups for players and staff.
์ ์์ ์คํํ์ฉ ์ข ์ด์ปต ์์ ์์๋ณ๊ณผ ๋ น์๊ฐ๋ ์ผ์ ์๋์ด๊ฐ ๋์ธ ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ ํ ์ด๋ธ๋ก ํฅํ๋ค.
He took a handful of ice, cursed when the cold bit his palm, wrapped it in one of the clean media-room napkins, and threw it at Noah's chest.
๊ทธ๋ ์ผ์ ํ ์ํผ์ ์ง์ด ๋ค๊ณ ๋ ์๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ์ฐ๋ฅด๋ ๋๊ธฐ์ ์์ค์ ๋ด๋ฑ๋๋, ๊นจ๋ํ ๋ ํจ์ ์ผ์์ ์ธ์ ๋ ธ์์ ๊ฐ์ดํ์ผ๋ก ๋์ก๋ค.
Noah caught it before it fell.
๋ ธ์๋ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ๋จ์ด์ง๊ธฐ ์ ์ ๋์์ฑ๋ค.
The napkin was already wetting through.
๋ ํจ์ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ถ์ถํ๊ฒ ์ ์ด ๋ค๊ณ ์์๋ค.
Callan turned away as if the act had been an error committed by someone else.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๋ง์น ๊ทธ ํ๋์ด ํ์ธ์ ์ค์์ธ ์ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ ค๋ฒ๋ ธ๋ค.
"Put it on your face, then."
"์ผ๊ตด์๋ ๋๊ณ ์์ด."
Noah lifted the wrapped ice to the bruise.
๋ ธ์๋ ์ผ์ ๋ญ์น๋ฅผ ๋ฉ๋ ๊ณณ์ ๊ฐ๋ค ๋๋ค.
Cold entered sharply, clarifying the pain.
๋ ์นด๋ก์ด ๋๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ ํด์ง๋ฉฐ ํต์ฆ์ด ๋ ์ ๋ช ํด์ก๋ค.
He watched Callan from behind it.
๊ทธ๋ ์ผ์ ๋๋จธ๋ก ์บ๋ฐ์ ์ง์ผ๋ณด์๋ค.
The flowers on the table had sagged.
ํ ์ด๋ธ ์์ ๊ฝ๋ค์ ์๋คํด์ ธ ์์๋ค.
The room smelled of crushed stems, stale coffee, wool dampened by rain, and the salt heat of a man who had waited without calling it waiting.
๋ฐฉ ์์๋ ์ง์ด๊ฒจ์ง ์ค๊ธฐ ๋์์ ์์ ์ปคํผ ํฅ, ๋น์ ์ ์ ์ธ ๋์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ '๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆผ'์ด๋ผ ๋ถ๋ฅด์ง ๋ชปํ ์ฑ ํ๋ก ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค์จ ๋จ์์ ์งญ์กฐ๋ฆํ ์ด๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ค์์ฌ ์์๋ค.
Callan stood with his back three-quarters turned, one hand at his collar where the ring had vanished again, thumb pressed to the hidden band through fabric.
์บ๋ฐ์ ๋น์ค๋ฌํ ๋ฑ์ ๋๋ฆฐ ์ฑ ์ ์์๋ค. ํ ์์ ๋ฐ์ง๊ฐ ๋ค์ ์จ์ด๋ฒ๋ฆฐ ์ท๊น์ ์ฅ๊ณ ์์๊ณ , ์์ง์๊ฐ๋ฝ์ ์ท๊ฐ ๋๋จธ๋ก ์จ๊ฒจ์ง ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ๊พน ๋๋ฅด๊ณ ์์๋ค.
He did not ask another question.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ด์ ๋ฌป์ง ์์๋ค.
Noah did not fill the silence.
๋ ธ์๋ ์นจ๋ฌต์ ๊นจ์ง ์์๋ค.
For the first time since walking into the room, the restraint was not a tactic but a form of debt being paid by the second, insufficient and real.
์ด ๋ฐฉ์ ๋ค์ด์จ ์ดํ ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก, ๋ ธ์์ ์ ์ ๋ ์ ๋ต์ด ์๋ ๋น์ ๊ฐ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ด ๋์๋ค. ๋งค ์ด๋ง๋ค ์ง๋ถ๋๋, ์ฌ์ ํ ๋ถ์กฑํ์ง๋ง ์ง๊ทนํ ํ์ค์ ์ธ ๋๊ฐ์๋ค.
Outside, Sean began speaking rapidly to someone about statements, privacy, and no, absolutely no footage leaves this room without club legal.
๋ฌธ๋ฐ์์๋ ์์ด ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์๊ฒ ๊ณต์ ์ฑ๋ช ๊ณผ ์ฌ์ํ ๋ณดํธ์ ๋ํด ๋ค๊ธํ ์์๋ถ์ด๊ณ ์์๋ค. ๊ตฌ๋จ ๋ฒ๋ฌดํ์ ํ๋ฝ ์์ด๋ ๊ทธ ์ด๋ค ์์๋ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋๊ฐ ์ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ์ ํจ๊ป.
Inside, Callan kept his hand over the ring until the ice in Noah's napkin began to melt down his wrist.
๋ฐฉ ์์์ ์บ๋ฐ์, ๋ ธ์์ ๋ ํจ ์ ์ผ์์ด ๋ น์ ์๋ชฉ์ ํ๊ณ ํ๋ฌ๋ด๋ฆด ๋๊น์ง ๋ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ์ฅ ์์ ๋์ง ์์๋ค.
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