Chapter 6: The File Seulgi Shouldn't Have

The notification was not supposed to exist.

Jiyeon found it at 6:47 in the morning, three days after Cha Junho had walked out of Studio C with Somin's pivot landing catalogued behind his eyes. She was running through the CROWN internal system on her phone—the trainee portal, which housed practice schedules, room booking logs, and the shared audio archive where official coaching sessions were stored—and she found it because she was looking for something else entirely. She'd been trying to pull her own session file from Tuesday's vocal work, the one where she'd attempted the upper-register run four times and been satisfied with none of them, because she wanted to listen back with fresh ears before the day started.

The file was there. That was not the problem.