The bathroom mirror is fogged. She wipes a hole and looks at you.

Story notes: she clears the mirror so she can see him

Yun is thirty-one and Ren is thirty-three. They picked this hotel bathroom together when they checked in, and they expected the mirror to fog. She wipes a patch with her hand, bites her lip, and looks at him. That look is their agreed question: seen like this, do you still want to go on. She does not continue until Ren nods. The tap keeps dripping because they like that small sound, not because someone failed to finish a chore.

The phone on the dry towel was placed there by both of them, screen down, and it stays down until she says to begin. She tells him she will direct, and if he says stop she will cover the phone with the towel. Ren says he wants to be seen and he wants to see her. Both are clear-headed. The hot water is for the fog, not to leave anyone dizzy. They already asked the desk to hang a do-not-disturb card, and the desk did it because they asked.

At 0:15 she clears the glass and sees him nod. At 0:40 she asks if the water is too hot. He says it is right, and he wants it this way. At 1:05 she turns the phone over, frames both of their eyes first, and asks before she includes a shoulder. At 1:30 the water covers a sentence. She stops, asks it a second time, and goes on only after she hears yes. At 1:50 she covers the phone with the towel and says this part can stop here.

After the towel covers the phone, the mirror fogs over again. Yun asks if he would want her to clear it once more. Ren says he would, but this clip can stop on their eyes. They both remember that the beats live inside two minutes. They do not turn the steam into a longer film. They put the phone face down on the dry shelf and leave the do-not-disturb card until morning. The tap is still dripping. They say that small sound can stay, and she says yes.