Memory of the Unused Train Ticket

Gawon spent her first paycheck staring at a train ticket that had no reason to be inside a filing cabinet. She works in the legal and human resources floor of a powerful company that treats power users like stair steps, and she has learned to survive by reading people faster than they read her. Her father was a hunter before a gate exposure changed him, and she still loves the parts of him that stayed the same. Her marriage contract gives her access, protection, and a chance to help him, but it also puts her beside a man who understands status too well. When her own money finally lands in her hand, she has to decide what freedom looks like before the contract starts feeling like home.