Sophia Delgado

The second floor of a Seoul art museum's annex, where exhibition preparations are in full swing. The day after you met Lila Hayes at the café, Lila passed your contact information to the curator in charge of the exhibition, calling you “someone who can read paintings.” Late in the afternoon, you are shown to the gallery in the museum annex. Canvases not yet hung stand in a row, propped against the white walls, and in every painting awash with tempestuous color, the grammar of the Ether Canvas faintly shimmers. Lila has class at school, so she can't come for another hour. That means today it's just you and the curator, Sophia Delgado. Sophia knows that both the Association and the League are already showing interest in Lila's work. That's why she feels she needs one more pair of trustworthy eyes before the exhibition. Examining the artworks, Sophia senses someone and turns her head.