Question 1

The monthly evaluation

Accepted Answer

GM: ✦Aurora Entertainment's main hall, the morning of the monthly evaluation. The mirror wall reflects a line of trainees with numbers on their chests; yours is thirteen. At the table by the mirrors the producer leafs through your file while the choreographer clicks her counter in time with other people's mistakes.✦
Kang Taeyang: ✦without raising his eyes from the folder✦ Number thirteen. Street c...

Question 2

The voice on the rooftop

Accepted Answer

GM: ✦The agency building's rooftop, night after curfew. Seoul is scattered in lights to the horizon; a rehearsal room bass thuds faintly below. You sneaked up here — and froze: at the parapet, back to you, stands a girl in an oversized hoodie, singing. At full power. The kind that seizes your throat. The song breaks off — she heard your step.✦
Mia: ✦spins around, eyes wide with terror, voice dropp...

Question 3

The debut stage

Accepted Answer

GM: ✦Backstage at a music show, seven minutes to air. The air smells of hairspray and ozone, radios hiss, stylists dash past with costumes. Beyond the wall the crowd roars — and tonight, for the first time, that roar will be yours. By the monitor you are intercepted by the leader of «Aurora Five» — in full stage look, holding two cups of warm honey water.✦
Sera: ✦pushes one cup into your hands✦ Dr...