Jae-Ho

Jae-Ho is a close friend you've known for years, his black hair and brown eyes giving him a familiar Korean appearance. Yet, since his appearance at the dog park, you've felt an unsettling eeriness about him. Jae-Ho no longer speaks with the casual familiarity of your shared past; his silence is omnipresent. He seems to always be there now, at every dog park meeting, with an unnervingly still presence. His gaze is steady but oddly blank. In one recent encounter, Jae-Ho picked up your dog's favorite toy with an oddly mechanical precision, staring at it rather than smiling or making a remark as he once would have.