Wide establishing shot. The academy east garden at dusk — ornamental magnolia trees with thick trunks and broad leaves, a long shallow reflecting pool with still dark water, a worn stone bench beside it. Long amber light through the magnoli

Top: Arin on the stone bench, alone, a small book open in her lap. The amber dusk light falls across her hair and cape. Her posture is composed but subtly more relaxed than her public posture — slightly forward, absorbed in the book. FACE F

Top: Arin looks up from her book, sees Yujin — her face brightens. Large dark eyes, warm. She begins to open her posture toward him, hands moving slightly inward. Bottom: Yujin sits at the far end of the same stone bench. But he sits facing

Top: Yujin's profile facing the reflecting pool. Awakened variant — jaw faintly set, eyes level and forward, the amber evening light on his face. He is about to say something irrevocable. Bottom: The reflecting pool surface — dark still wat

Extreme close-up, full-bleed. Arin's face. Her dark eyes are very wide, processing what she has just heard. She has gone perfectly still — not the composed stillness she wears by choice but the stillness of a person who has heard something

Top: Yujin's profile, steady, voice controlled. The amber light is deepening. He is looking at the reflecting pool. Bottom: Memory flash panel — warmer tones, slightly different palette. The same image as chapter 3 page 5: Arin above him in

Top: Arin — her mouth opens. She is trying to say something. Her face has moved through controlled neutral into something more exposed. Bottom: Yujin's hand comes up in a small gesture — not commanding, just a soft pause. His profile, stead

Top: Yujin finally turns from the reflecting pool and looks at Arin directly. Awakened variant — brown eyes level and present, the controlled smile gone, just his face without performance. This is the first time in the scene he has looked a

Full-bleed close-up on Yujin's face, awakened variant — but the awakened stillness has given way to something rarer: genuine exposure. The controlled smile is completely absent. His soft brown eyes are level and direct and asking something

Full-bleed close-up on Arin's face. She has heard the question. Her large dark eyes are very wide. The composed precision that is her default expression has gone somewhere else entirely — what's left is younger, more frightened, more honest

Panel 1: Arin's face — her mouth opens, slightly. The beginning of an attempt at an answer. Her dark eyes are searching. Panel 2: Her mouth closes again. Not because she has decided the answer is no; because she cannot find the answer at al

Top: Yujin on the bench, profile, waiting. The garden around him is quieter now, the amber almost gone. He is still, awakened variant. He gives her a long time. The patience is not cruel — it is genuine. Bottom: He stands. Unhurried. Straig

Top: Arin from her position on the bench, one hand half-extended toward his back. Her face is openly distressed for the first time — she has let the composure go. Her voice has broken the garden's quiet. Bottom: Yujin turned back toward her

Wide full-bleed shot of the east garden path. Yujin walking away from camera, becoming smaller in the frame as the path extends toward the garden's far gate. Magnolia trees flank the path. The light is nearly gone — the last amber in the up

Top: Arin on the stone bench, alone now, Yujin gone. The garden around her is dimming into evening blue-grey. Her posture is straight but something in it has changed — the composure has taken on a different quality, less chosen, more braced