<blockquote>You are waiting for your instance in the basement of the Shinsegae Department Store. This was as good as an amusement park when you were a kid; it was a wonderland of delicious food stalls and a typical weekend haunt because your grandfather lived two blocks away.
Your grandfather is dead. Your instance gave you the news: a phone call in the dead of night that woke you from a dead sleep.
“Hello?” you said, accented with slumber.
“Is this Soyoung Kang?” your own voice said, accented with Korean.
“Yes,” you said. The only people who still call you Soyoung are family. Everyone else calls you Rose.</blockquote>
