December 30, 2025

We had arrived at our home in Taitung but the other car that was with us wasn’t following and went sightseeing. It was raining heavily but we decided to head back out again anyways. I walked around the house to make sure all of the lights were turned off before walking back to the car.

We were in some kind of marketplace that was in a weirdly sterile office floor. I checked the map for the bathroom but the only thing in the marked area was a long communal sink. Said sink was overflowing with water and every faucet along the wall was a different shape, some of them touching the water.

My dad was looking around one of the stores and told the person manning the stall that he had alternative ways of transferring money for what he wanted to buy. He also said that he knew the group selling goods was not local.

We were talking about my cousin’s age and the movies from her teen years. One of them had the Backstreet Boys on the soundtrack.