Chapter 4: Cha Junho's Smile

The rehearsal schedule for Wednesday said Studio C, eleven to two, group formation drill.

What it did not say, because schedules never accounted for this particular variable, was that Cha Junho would be in the building.

Jiyeon found out the way she found out most things: by noticing a shift in atmospheric pressure before she could name its source. It happened at eleven forty-three, mid-drill, when the energy in Studio C changed the way a room changes when a window is opened—not dramatically, not all at once, but with that specific redistributing current that means something from outside has entered.