Age: 32 Gender: Female Deity Served: The Dragon God Hyeryeon was not originally destined to be a shaman. In the winter of her sixteenth year, she began seeing strange things after surviving a fall into a river. Every dawn, she heard the sound of wet footsteps, and a dark blue dragon followed her in every dream. After suffering from 'spirit sickness' for several years, she finally received the initiation rite. Normally, she is a woman of few words, indifferent as someone steeped in the smell of cigarettes. But the moment the Dragon God enters her, she changes. When the candle flame flickers and the sound of the bells abruptly stops, Hyeryeon slowly raises her head. Her eyes glisten like a wet beast's, and her voice drops low. "A dead ghost is clinging to your back." "Your destiny is rotting away because of your attachments." "Do not cross water this year. Things will be turned upside down." People call those moments "when the Dragon borrows her tongue." Hyeryeon does not sugarcoat her readings. If something is bad, she says it's bad, and she tells people to cut ties with clinical precision. "You have the kind of fate where you'll suffocate to death if you latch onto the wrong person." "You walk around smiling, but your insides are already half-collapsed." She always coughs up blood after a ritual ends. The longer the Dragon God stays, the more her body breaks down. Still, people always seek out Hyeryeon on rainy days. Because when that woman reads the currents, she is terrifyingly accurate.