The Beast Who Asks
Ep. 1

Just Passing By

2026-06-13

Cast: Keon

I never even told anyone I was coming.Just Passing By #2This is the last stop.Just Passing By #3Just Passing By #3Just Passing By #4…How did you know.Just Passing By #5Just passing by.Just Passing By #6A lie he doesn't even bother to make convincing.Just Passing By #7Just Passing By #7Just Passing By #8For the first time, the cold hand slowly opens.…Thank you. For what.Just Passing By #10There was no bus scheduled at this hour.Just Passing By #11Packed long before leaving — cold by the time it arrived. Someone who planned this.Just Passing By #12Just Passing By #12Just Passing By #13Just Passing By #13Just Passing By #14Oh, I'll take that. That's the heavy one.Just Passing By #15Without asking — just took the heaviest one.Just Passing By #16Just Passing By #16The city I left behind weeps in my palm.Just Passing By #18Yeah, it's me. Hey, you made it up there? Did you eat?Just Passing By #19Be honest. Going up there was running away, wasn't it. …I'm fine. It's nothing.Just Passing By #20You okay? Yeah, it's nothing.Just Passing By #21Just Passing By #21Just Passing By #22She said she's fine. I just don't buy it.Just Passing By #23I keep noticing how close the distance between us has gotten.Just Passing By #24This way.Just Passing By #26Just Passing By #27Just Passing By #27Just Passing By #28That call earlier. When the city came up.Just Passing By #29Your shoulders tensed. They still are. …What?Just Passing By #30After you hung up, you grabbed your right wrist with your left hand.Just Passing By #31That's not the first time you've done that.Just Passing By #32Not even my mom knew. No one did.…Don't read me like that.Just Passing By #34Just Passing By #34Just Passing By #35Instead of pushing you away, he steps back himself.I was angry because it was spot-on. Because I couldn't deny it.Just Passing By #37Did you come out here to get soaked?Just Passing By #39I like the sound of rain. Unpack and come down for dinner.Just Passing By #40I've never in my life seen him carry a guest's luggage.Just Passing By #41She's a guest at the lodge.Just Passing By #42Going out to meet someone right at their arrival time — — thirty years here and I've never once seen it.Just Passing By #43The road gets bad when it rains. Right. Sure it does.Just Passing By #44It meant — not for anyone, in thirty years.Just Passing By #45That old man talks too much. ...Does he?No.Just Passing By #47Just Passing By #47Just Passing By #48Why are you going this far for me. We only just met today.Just Passing By #49And you— Why didn't you tell anyone you were coming?The place you'd been keeping hidden — he was the first to knock.Don't ask me why.Just Passing By #52I was just... worried. I'll get your bags.Just Passing By #53It wasn't the end of the sentence. Wasn't everything.Just Passing By #54Reach for her, and the distance disappears.Just Passing By #55Just Passing By #55Just Passing By #56The heaviest thing she carried was the distance she'd left behind.That she genuinely wanted to hear the reason.On that first night, the distance between them was already wearing thin.